Allegra Huston Quotes

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

Allegra Huston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 26, 1964

Topics

CharacterSpacePeopleMeSelf

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Jim DeMint

HopeTimeProblemsBecomeScared

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

John Cleese

CountryMoreLittleBeingPress

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

Robert Harris

YourselfThinkTalkingYouFindOut

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Jeff Koons

LoveArtEconomicsWorldPlace

When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.

John Zimmer

FriendMotherBestJobStartYou

You learn by mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you try not to make them the third time or the second time. You learn from them. Sometimes you learn the hard way. In football, if I held on to the ball too long, I got my butt kicked. You better make that decision quicker.

Ron Jaworski

TimeDecisionFootballMistakesYou

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Michael Lehmann

ConnectionKnowFirstLittleMovie

Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

Luis Suarez

WifeAttentionYouGoSameWherever

Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage. I think if you counted up how many hours each one of us logged in, he certainly gets more than 50%.

Janet Yellen

MarriagePartnerThinkYouFlexible

When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier's leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships.

Chris Fussell

LeaderTimeDownRelationshipsTask

I have a varied collection of music on my phone. I like a lot of the popular music that has a really energetic beat to it, as well as some classical things.

Chesley Sullenberger

MusicPhoneThingsBeatWellLike

People have been very strong against Obamacare since I was first elected, and they still feel that way. They want us to work to get rid of it. They also are very strong for keeping the government running.

Chuck Fleischmann

WorkGovernmentPeopleStrongFeel

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