Luther Allison Quotes
Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.
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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
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Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.
