Allison Pearson Quotes

I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.

Allison Pearson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: 1960

Topics

HeartTimeMyselfDepressionMe

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

Jim Carrey

LiveDayChocolateYouBackKnow

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

Melina Matsoukas

MomentHabitCollegeUpWhereLast

I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

AmericanUpLittleThingsVeryLot

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.

John Travolta

LifeBelieveKnowWithoutOutGoing

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

Star Jones

ChangeMirrorMyselfDayChoicesUp

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

Spike Lee

RespectIntelligenceGoWhyTryLot

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist.

Stevie Jackson

I AmGlassesSuitsArtistWearAm

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

Steve Schirripa

MotherBestDoingSayReactAsk

There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.

Tom Morello

StarsHistoryGreatGuitarPlayPop

Clearly, apprenticeships are a win-win: They provide workers with sturdy rungs on that ladder of opportunity and employers with the skilled workers they need to grow their businesses. And yet in America, they've traditionally been an undervalued and underutilized tool in our nation's workforce development arsenal.

Tom Perez

OpportunityGrowAmericaLadderNeed

I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, 'cause I've got nothing to do without that!

RM

Wake UpHotelBackDownGoNothing

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

Dolly Parton

FunnyMeGrowing UpSeeingGrowing

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