Allison Schroeder Quotes
People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?
