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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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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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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I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!
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My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
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To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.
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In The New Poetry I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
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I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.
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On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world. To students, mathematics appears to deal almost entirely with things whlch are of no concern at all to man.
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I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.