Allison Schroeder Quotes
I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her to run.' It seemed like executives would be worried about me controlling a room and having power, and I'd say, 'Oh, I can control a room. I can give an order like nobody's business.'
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
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I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. People frame it in a negative way, like, 'For Asian-Americans there's no one out there, so that must be really bad for you.' No, I benefited from it.
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A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.
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Putting it precisely, activating a resource and utilizing a resource are not synonymous.
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I think a lot of times people look at me and say, 'Well, we can't possibly hand a show over to her to run.' It seemed like executives would be worried about me controlling a room and having power, and I'd say, 'Oh, I can control a room. I can give an order like nobody's business.'
