Ally Condie Quotes
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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Leeks are normally given the job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups, but I find their creaminess and sweet, oniony flavour very satisfying.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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When I talk to CEOs, they're not educated about social media.
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In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.
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One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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Falling in love is embarrassing. It is not hardcore. It is not part of the scene.
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Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.
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It was funny that rank-and-file evangelicals were ahead of all the leadership. They saw for decades conservative Republicans had made promises to them on issues that were important to Christians and conservatives when they were running for office. But when they won, they didn't keep those promises.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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Teens find out a lot from other teens.
