Allison Williams Quotes
The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I want to love life.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.
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The amount of time that a young girl spends wearing pink will be inversely proportional to her future income.
Sandra Lerner -
The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
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We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these.
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The idea of a young girl who knows exactly what she wants with her life is the most threatening and unappealing thing you can imagine.
