Allison Janney Quotes
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management.
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To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world.
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I want to feel sexy and pretty and young as long as I can.
