Allison Schroeder Quotes
There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women in rooms with the executives, the people hiring, it seems to break down barriers. Because they can no longer say, 'There just aren't any women to hire,' when you're surrounded by fifty of them.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.
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… I really hate big laptops. I can't understand people who lug around 15' (or 17'!) monsters. The right weight for a laptop is 1kg, no more.
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We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.
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I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
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There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those middlemen out, and we get women in rooms with the executives, the people hiring, it seems to break down barriers. Because they can no longer say, 'There just aren't any women to hire,' when you're surrounded by fifty of them.
