Allison Anders Quotes
I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Yoga is not a religion to me.
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When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.
