A.A. Allen Quotes

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I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

I am a musician, a songwriter, music fan. I live in New York City and I love my job.

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.

Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.

I guess this is cliche, but I'd love to work with Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Diplo.

People don't realize that there's no label and everything is self-financed and we make do and do our own thing. I was just happy to do my first video, I thought it was a fun experience.

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I don't have a political bone in my body.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.

I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.

I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy.

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.

In the stock market... You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.

We need to understand what we're saying matters.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

None of us wants any more war.

It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.

The best thing I ever did was give my family everything I could.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.

There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.