Allison Janney Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Greenville, S.C., in the 1970s is a rolling green dream in my memory now.
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I really try to make smart choices about my fashion and really live a life on the carpet that's the same as the life I live normally.
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If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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Consider in 1945, when the United Nations was first formed, there were something like fifty-one original member countries. Now the United Nations is made up of 193 nations, but it follows the same structure in which five nations control it. It's an anti-democratic structure.
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The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.
