A.A. Allen Quotes

I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

When I'm in New York my boyfriend buys me sneakers and vice versa.

I know lots of people that take cocaine three nights a week and get up and go to work every day, no problem. But we never hear that side of the story.

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

What we think about, expands.

You will receive what you ask for no more, no less

When I go see a performer, I don't go to criticize. I just go to be entertained. I don't go to give advice; I just go to enjoy.

Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle.

Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

In America, law substitutes for custom.

In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme being, the one and only head god, a habit lent to them by monotheism.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down.

I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.

I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!"

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

I was fascinated looking at John Galliano's couture. They're just extraordinary extravaganzas and I love it. I love looking at it because it's like going to a museum.

I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had this freedom of body.

There are some very creative people out there who are like Steven Meisel, and that is why their work is so extraordinary.

I also had a huge crush on William Holden. I would go to see William Holden's movies alone - I didn't want to be with anybody. I just wanted to be with him.

I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore. There aren't enough designers today anyway - there are more stylists.

Have you ever held a snake? Well, let me tell you, it is so erotic.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

The colors and creativity of our painters attracted me, but I remember that I was shocked by the lack of proportion.

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Stories are the shortcut to the heart.

The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.