Allyson Schwartz Quotes
Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
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You have to make peace with life.
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I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.
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The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market.
