Allison Janney Quotes
I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police.
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Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.
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I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
