Allison Pearson Quotes
I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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The word 'change' has been abused so many times.
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When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.
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La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.
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I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.
