Allison Anders Quotes
It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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I always played to win.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
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Not everyone wants to see children's films, comics, and supermen.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love. You have to let things go that are not for you.
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It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.
