Allison Williams Quotes

I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.

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• Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Layers
  • Vine

• My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Shoes
  • Fish

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I don't see the point in working just to be working.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • See
  • Working
  • Point

• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • House
  • Play
  • Fire

• I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

  

  Zak Orth
  • Up
  • Me
  • Backstage

• None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Period
  • Movies
  • Costume

• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • View
  • Contrast

• Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • Paint
  • Before

• Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Future
  • Success
  • Carry

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Argument

• Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Running
  • Brother

• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Tragedy
  • Insecurity
  • Hilarious

• Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Change
  • Impossible

• I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Art
  • Single

• Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • Fact
  • Often

• I wanted to use the hippo to get people out of their homes, away from the Internet and the TV, and to explore London with a new perspective.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Perspective
  • Internet

• Hey, look, my actions don't necessarily reflect my voting record.

  

  Paula Zahn
  • Action
  • Record
  • Reflect

• I've figured out the secret. Your mind is your power; you have to work with your mind and work with your own thoughts about your own life. If you spend so much time thinking, "This industry is male-dominated. It's sexist. It's this. It's that," then that's what the picture will always be. I remember when I was coming up, I didn't have those thoughts. My mom told me I could be whatever I wanted to be and I could be as bright of a star as I was meant to be. So, that's where I put all of my focus and my thought...into what I could do. And I carry that with me now.

  

  Brandy
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Thoughts

• I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Artist
  • Write
  • Don't Think

• Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.

  

  Harry Crosby
  • Soul
  • Existence
  • Reports

• We, Autolux band, write in very different ways; sometimes we play with the band and write music first and then form vocal parts and lyrics. Or I'll find some music, or a guitar part or something, and I'll just write an entire sketch of an idea from that. So I think things have always been that way, it's just that this time around we had some more obstacles off and on all the time.

  

  Carla Azar
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.

  

  Allison Williams