Allison Janney Quotes
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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I adapt my workouts to what my needs are.
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The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.
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As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
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When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.
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My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
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The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
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Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
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I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.
