Allison Janney Quotes
I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.
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It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure about it - not because I didn't like it, but I didn't want people to think I hadn't earned it.
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I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.
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There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
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I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.
