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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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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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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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
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I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.
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I have one very bad experience with a U.K. publisher, who gave it out to be understood that she wanted to publish my book and made me do a lot of changes, all outside a contract, only to reject it in the end.
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I think the killers get far too much attention.
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If I’m a CEO, I want to be in a place where the government works.
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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.
