Allison Anders Quotes
I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
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Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.
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When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
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I was a big fan of X. I've probably seen 100 X shows during their time in the late '70s and early '80s.
