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.
Gail Collins -
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.
Nate Parker -
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
Iris Apfel -
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
Jack Youngblood -
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.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
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.
Fionnula Flanagan
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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.
Pat Buchanan -
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.
Sam Smith -
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.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
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.
Frances Perkins -
I can afford to get Tesco's finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.
Taron Egerton -
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.
Oriana Fallaci
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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.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
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.
Gary Becker -
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.
Orson Scott Card -
'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.'
Albert Camus -
The tongue, the Chinese say,is like a sharp knife:it killswithout drawing blood.
Anne Sexton -
How you niggas want it? have it yo way burger king.
Lil Wayne
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I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
Chris Pavone -
I would do anything that helps people do things better. Even if the Indian government comes to me for anything, I would be very open.
Pranav Mistry -
A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.
Jimmy Iovine -
We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.
Simon Armitage -
It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
Laura San Giacomo -
The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.
Allison Anders