Allison Janney Quotes

I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Today
  • Dreams
  • Questions

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Work
  • Job
  • Bad

• According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Virtue
  • New
  • Ethics

• A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Game
  • Team

• I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Coaching

• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Worth
  • Strife
  • None

• In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • First
  • Season
  • Average

• There is also present another source of energy operating in a more continuous fashion and being more intimately connected with the permanent evolution in human societies.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Energy
  • Fashion
  • Present

• It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put 'Elected' out, it was definitely a satire ... 'Alice Cooper for President' ... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People
  • Political
  • Funny

• The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Work
  • God
  • Family

• I'm very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they're one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life

• It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Different
  • Mind

• There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Up

• We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Teach

• And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

  

  Bob Geldof
  • Up
  • Children

• Sometimes a single item can wrap up, in a nutshell, who a person is. In my grandparents' home, a clear plastic container was enthroned on top of the mahogany bar for at least a decade. Painted on the lid in pink, yellow and light blue was 'Have a Nosh With Mort & Ethel'.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Up
  • Home
  • Light

• In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Dream
  • Angel
  • Shrugged

• I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

  

  Allison Janney