Allison Janney Quotes
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I don't do meetings.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.
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When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
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I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.
