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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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 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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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Choosing to laugh doesn’t undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it.
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Every actor is always prepared for the worst when it comes to work.
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I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.
