Allison Anders Quotes
While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
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To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.
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I seriously don't take praise to my heart or to my head. I only want to work harder and never get complacent.
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While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
