Allison Janney Quotes
I'm one of those actors who fall into the camp of never wanting to look at themselves on camera ever, thank you very much. I do not and will not, because I am my worst critic.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.
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In the mid-1980s, there was a grassroots desire for American culture. Maybe it was not a definite harbinger to what was to come in terms of the fall of the Soviet Union, but it certainly gave a heads up to the global merging of the retail culture.
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
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I'm one of those actors who fall into the camp of never wanting to look at themselves on camera ever, thank you very much. I do not and will not, because I am my worst critic.
