Allison Janney Quotes
I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
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A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
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As cheesy as it sounds, nothing beats a smile and a bit of confidence! As long as you feel good on the inside, you can still look beautiful without any makeup at all.
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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To some extent, the idea that rock 'n roll used to have this sort of free antediluvian identity, frolicking in the 1950s with Elvis or something, is totally wrong. It's insane. Elvis' relationship with Colonel Parker, his manager, was one of the most possibly corrupt, certainly lucrative, and intense business partnerships ever in rock n' roll.
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
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I'm trying to laugh uncontrollably with whoever I'm making a song with because whatever we just listened to that we just came up with is so dope. I'm chasing that feeling in the studio, not like a trend or what's hot on the radio at the moment. It just seems like the more I do that, the better I get at what I do. I'm going to keep doing that.
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
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I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.
