Allison Williams Quotes

I am in the fortunate-enough position where I can be picky.

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

  

  Kaki King
  • Different
  • Single
  • Simple

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Dad

• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Gentleman

• I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Me

• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Life
  • Work
  • Change

• We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • War
  • Know
  • Peace

• Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Don't put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Style

• If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

  

  Ouida
  • City
  • Gay
  • Lies

• 'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't have a deep desire to know my father. My brother and sister and I got forgotten about by him, and we haven't spoken to him in a ridiculous amount of years. He never contacted us after he and my mother broke up. ... I never felt rejected as a kid. We had a fulfilling life with my mum. She was so strong.

  

  Anastacia
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • People
  • Past

• If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.

  

  James Norton
  • Weird
  • Bike

• Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

  

  Derek Bailey

• I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Rejection

• That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • World
  • Work
  • Interesting

• The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Myself

• Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust,Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just;Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified,And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Brave

• I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Life is
  • Worried
  • Thirty

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• I am in the fortunate-enough position where I can be picky.

  

  Allison Williams