Allison Williams Quotes

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Allison Williams

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• If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • People
  • Work
  • Name

• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Fun
  • Me

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Fear
  • Others
  • Greedy

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • You
  • Matter

• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Laws

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Wedding
  • White
  • Dress

• Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • India
  • Some
  • Nationalism

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Beauty
  • Mountains
  • Corner

• 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • More
  • Because
  • Brothers

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.

  

  Eric Bana
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Travel

• I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Life
  • Home
  • Reading

• I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents