Allison Anders Quotes
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
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I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.
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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.
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The bumping of lower-quality men out of their marriages through competitive reductions in the incomes of higher-quality men continues until the incomes of the lowest quality men are reduced to their single levels.
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You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.
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'Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.'
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Wages, investments, and home values are the three legs of the economic stool for most Americans.
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Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.
