Allison Anders Quotes

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

Allison Anders

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• I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Why
  • Like
  • Always

• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Silence
  • Lose
  • Solitude

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Universe
  • Best
  • Always

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Succeed

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Magic
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Business
  • Simple

• The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • History
  • Past
  • Down

• There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Years

• It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Life
  • Guy

• A gun gives you the body, not the bird.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Gun
  • Bird

• We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

  

  John Shelton Reed
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Experience

• No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Personality

• So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Now

• I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Believe