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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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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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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Follow this you bitches.
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....A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.
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When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox
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The Zionists are very much, very adventuresome, very much seeking to fabricate things, and I think they see themselves at the end of the line, and I do firmly believe that they seek to create new opportunities for themselves and their adventurous behaviors.
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I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
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We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
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There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.
