Alison Pill Quotes

I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.

Alison Pill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 27, 1985

Topics

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I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

Jet Li

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People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

John Catsimatidis

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Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop.

Ruchi Sanghvi

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I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.

Molly Bloom

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One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.

Joshua Cohen

LifeMemoryMeSearchLongAlive

For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at all on the stage or in film', so I feel I have to take all the opportunities I can.

Dominic Cooper

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I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

Aubrey Plaza

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We need to redefine what a hero looks like.

Allison Schroeder

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I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.

William Jay Smith

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I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

Philip Treacy

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I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century.

Susanna Kearsley

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