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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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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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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I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.
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You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
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Fathers and mothers are just people, which means they make mistakes. Don't hold that against them. Whatever flaws they may have, they created you in a moment of love, and are among the few who knew you when. When they're gone, there won't be anyone to take their place.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
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I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.
