Allison Quotes

• Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage, behind anger is love, behind this moment is silence, years of silence.

  Dorothy Allison

  Sex, Struggle, Love Is

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.39, Penguin

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• When you grow up, your heart dies.

  Ally Sheedy

  Growing Up, Heart, Breakfast

  Jaime Clarke, Ally Sheedy (2007). “Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes”, Gallery

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• Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

  Dorothy Allison

  Lying, Writing, Fiction

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.117, Open Road Media

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• Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

  Dorothy Allison

  Healing, Cracks

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.45, Penguin

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• Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.

  Johanna Edwards

  Real, Scotch, Missing

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• Every once in awhile, Allison Abbate would drop a note and say, "It's going really well!," and I was like, "Great!" So, I had not seen it in about two years. They went off and started shooting, and I saw it all put together with almost the final sound mix and it was remarkable. I was so, so happy and relieved, not in the sense that I thought something had gone wrong, but you just don't know what something is going to be like until you see it put together. Everyone stepped up and brought their A+ game.

  John August

  Years, Games, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't know how (producer) Dan Harmon put that together but he did. Everyone gets along and we all babysit Chevy Chase (laughs) and it all works out. Plus we are given a lot of freedom to riff off each other and compliment each other's comedic style. The group is so talented, whether it be Donald Glover or Allison Brie and now Jim Rash who plays the Dean is finally a full member of the cast - oh my gosh, he is so funny. I call him Rumplestiltskin; he can spin comedy out of anything. I am in such a blessed situation - if only more people would watch it.

  Joel McHale

  Blessed, Play, Laughing

  "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

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• I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Listening, Very Good, Performers

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• It's what you do when you have Allison Janney.My jaw-dropped at her performance. You think that part is sort of a regular part until she steps into the shoes of the officer. She just filled it with such dimension and by giving her the whole shebang, the whole police thread, I think it was the right choice.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Thinking, Shoes, Giving

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I needed to enhance the outward threat to Rachel.In the book [Girl on the Train], her inner threat is so strong; the fear of herself and her inability to remember and the false memories. In the film [Girl on the Train]I wanted to increase the exterior threat. So that's why Allison's part was bigger and was an important part of the climax of the film.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Girl, Strong, Memories

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.

  Rob Lowe

  Actors, Hitting, Notes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when media conglomerates dominate the airwaves, independent media like Citizen Radio is vital to national discourse.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Media, Political

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• American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.

  James Branch Cabell

  Book, Men, Judging

  James Branch Cabell (2003). “Preface to the Past”, p.213, Wildside Press LLC

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• 'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

  Daniel Handler

  Love Is, Helping, Far Away

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

  John Mayall

  England, Moses, Raised

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• Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.

  Willie Dixon

  Beautiful, Musician, Moses

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• When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

  Ray Davies

  Missing, Links, Jazz

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• I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

  Luther Allison

  Names, People, Looks

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• I remember one spring when I was doing the team's telecasts, Bob Allison was with me, and we were walking through the clubhouse in Orlando. This kid who was trying to make it with the Twins as an outfielder came up to me and asked who was that with me. I said that's Bob Allison, and you better hope you have as good a career as he had.

  Harmon Killebrew

  Spring, Team, Kids

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• I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play.

  Luther Allison

  Play, People, Want

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• Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

  Sophie Thompson

  Actors, Brilliant, Pinup

  "Sophie Thompson: 'I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I'd find the funny bits'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• [Allison Janney] could memorize anything.She would memorize in the makeup trailer!

  Rob Lowe

  Makeup, Trailers

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