Alison Quotes

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.

I look really good in a scuba suit.

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might

We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.

I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.

I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion - I use La Mer.

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

I always felt that with luxury came cruelty. I do my best to live a happy, prosperous life, but I don't indulge in a lot of luxury.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

There's a lot of opportunities for scene-stealing if you're a dog.

I would love to do an all Laura Nyro show.

I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.

Some things feel really good to sing: there's a physical aspect, but there's more to it - a deeper place you go to.

You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.

I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

I honestly find it easier to dance about in heels than I do to walk down the street in them.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like.

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

I love being in the world of the unknown.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.