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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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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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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My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.
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Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I was the best.'
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The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
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While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
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I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.
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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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The miracle of life is enough for me to believe in miracles.
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There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
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Teens find out a lot from other teens.
