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 have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
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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 idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
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Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realise you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.
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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.
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I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.
