Allison Anders Quotes
There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
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I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.
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The big talent is persistence.
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I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
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To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.
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I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?
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I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.
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I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.
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No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.
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I've already lived the lives of ten people. My father's 87 and still going strong. I think there's a lovely angel watching over me.
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One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.
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There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.
