Will Allison Quotes

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

You're not a real manager unless you've been sacked.

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

And just in case you need reminding, you are beautiful

I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

I never killed a man who didn't need it.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid.

If you have a dream, only share it with those that are going to support you. Walk toward it on a daily basis and don't let anyone's doubting or negativity throw you off your path.

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

With a clear mind that is reinforcing positivity back into myself and my craft, I am able to focus my energy on the task at hand and enjoy my experiences and day.

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

I remember one guy saying, "You're the only human out of all of them," and feeling a little concerned that somehow that meant I wasn't as funny.

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.