Ann Dowd Quotes
It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was not what I had at all. They were very, very smart, devoted individuals.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
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It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
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It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been similar to each other, and the roles that I've been offered in the TV world have been similar to each other, but the TV roles and the indie film roles have been completely different.
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Gujaratis are smart people.
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It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.
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It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was not what I had at all. They were very, very smart, devoted individuals.
