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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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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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 more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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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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Enjoy every sandwich.
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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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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
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I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
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You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
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The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.
