Allison Janney Quotes
I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
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I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.
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Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
