Allison Anders Quotes

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

Allison Anders

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• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Want

• Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Romanticism

• People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • History
  • Taken

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Night
  • Care

• Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Day
  • Amazing

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Easy

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• We've all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, 'I'm really grateful that happened because I'm a stronger person.'

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Time
  • Done
  • Bad

• Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Baptism

• I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • Remember
  • America
  • Black

• Weird Al was something that kids would listen to. It's funny, super funny, smart. It's just kind of jokey. I remember hearing 'Smells Like Nirvana' before hearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' That's how it really worked. I think it's just such a cool thing how he introduced us to so many cool bands. Even Queen - 'Another One Rides the Bus.'

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Funny

• Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do.

  

  Arthur Boyd
  • Art

• When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

  

  Allison Anders
  • Remember