Allison Janney Quotes

The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.

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• I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
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• After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

  

  Yoko Ono
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• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
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• We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

  

  Jackie Stewart
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• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
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  • Guitar

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.

  

  Kaskade
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• We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• Time will heal everything.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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• It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
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• The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I did not move to New York with a plan. The first time I moved to New York, I just popped up. My sister was living here in New York. I just popped up. She had her baby and a husband, and I just popped up. 'Hey, what's up? I got $200 and dreams. Let's do this.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
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• Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

  

  Brian Schmidt
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  • Truth

• So long as you 'have' yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

  

  Martin Buber
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• Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

  

  Troy Polamalu
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• Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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  • Teenagers

• One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough account of the feeling that is always in SF.

  

  Brian Aldiss
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• The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.

  

  Allison Janney
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