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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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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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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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.
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My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
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Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.
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Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.
