Allison Williams Quotes

I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.

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• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Study

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

  Sallust
  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Now

• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Money
  • Space
  • Ideas

• Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Crisis

• I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • City
  • Sports

• The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• 'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Day

• I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Feeling
  • Film
  • Explore

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Writing
  • Story

• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Man
  • More

• With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.

  

  Lily James
  • Women
  • Interesting

• My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

  

  Joe Frazier
  • Mom
  • Tree

• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Great
  • Why
  • Together

• I would never tell someone else how to use their platform, because I think I'm much more comfortable allowing the work that I do to speak for itself.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Work