Allison Anders Quotes
The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.
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When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
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The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.
