Allison Anders Quotes
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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The world needs some help.
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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
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It was one of those cold, clammy, accusing sort of eyes-the kind that makes you reach up to see if your tie is straight: and he looked at me as I were some sort of unnecessary product which Cuthbert the Cat had brought in after a ramble among the local ash-cans.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
