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.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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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.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
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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.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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Only the young die good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.
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It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
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When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
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I heard the term "mamisma" when describing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, how she was speaking from that place which is kind of like a strong mother. Like when your mom says like, "put that down!" you know that is coming from a place of both love and strength. And at this critical stage in human history we need both action and caring.
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Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.
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I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.
