Allison Janney Quotes
The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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My first thought is always of light.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
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I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.
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Airy elaboration just loses everyone in a fog of words.
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I have learned very quickly where my strengths are, and color coordination of particular things is not a strong suit.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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I love leather jackets, and I am obsessed with it. I carry leather jackets fairly well.
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As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.
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The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
