Alison Pill Quotes

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

  Alison Pill

  Underestimate, Politician

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Alison Pill

  Believe, People, Awkward

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

  Alison Pill

  Order, People, Work Out

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• True badassery has no gender.

  Alison Pill

  Gender

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Have a kid. You obviously shouldn't have a baby just to get politically active, but I'm eight and a half months pregnant, and I swear, thinking about an actual very real future for a tiny person is a game changer.

  Alison Pill

  Baby, Real, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's wonderful. It's amazing. I mean we have such a great music scene and art scene and there's just a great group of young people, you know, temping their way through their 20's doing other amazing things. And I've been in...I spent like 10 years working here without ever having been shooting in Toronto. And it's so frustrating because it's a great city. And I remember seeing Montreal actually used as Montreal in that Ed Norton-Robert DeNiro.

  Alison Pill

  Art, Mean, Cities

  Source: collider.com

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• Some people get fake boobs, but whatever. You can make your own decisions.

  Alison Pill

  People, Fake, Decision

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

  Alison Pill

  New York, Growing Up, Acting

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• One of my favorite things in watching an actor is feeling, The story is safe in your hands. I can lean back and trust you with this.

  Alison Pill

  Hands, Feelings, Stories

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I didn't know the comic at all, which is really funny because I grew up here and I had friends who worked at all of the places. Like The Beguiling, which is a store here, and Suspect Video and one of my friends actually worked at Suspect and The Beguiling. So it's kind of crazy that I'd never known the books before.

  Alison Pill

  Crazy, Book, Video

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

  Alison Pill

  Believe, Perfect, Want

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York.

  Alison Pill

  New York, Cities, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I learned to drum and I'm very excited today. Well, first of all I got to...I learned when I was in New York I sort of did some prepping with just learning basic stuff like beating my couch next to my drum teacher, who's this incredible guy named Charlie Green.

  Alison Pill

  Teacher, New York, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I think a lot of people try to plan things in their career. They feel like, If I don't get this done by the time I'm thirty, everything's over. But I've worked with a lot of people whose careers shot to the top later in life.

  Alison Pill

  Thinking, Later In Life, Careers

  Interview with Sheila Heti, February 1, 2013.

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• I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

  Alison Pill

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.

  Alison Pill

  People, Magic, Together

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.

  Alison Pill

  Wife, Historical, Baggage

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

  Alison Pill

  Drama, Comedy, Blocked

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I didn't like most of my boyfriends. I'm a perfect example of somebody who will make it work no matter what. Like, I once had a guy move in with me. He was my least favorite. Nobody who went out with us knew that we were together. I just would not give off the vibe.

  Alison Pill

  Moving, Giving, Perfect

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

  Alison Pill

  Character, Ideas, Stuff

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

  Alison Pill

  Years, Scripts, Documents

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The boys have been running Washington for a long-ass time. We're talking 200-some-odd years.

  Alison Pill

  Running, Boys, Years

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We need to organize and figure out our own voice as a bloc and stop doubting ourselves.

  Alison Pill

  Voice, Doubt, Needs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.

  Alison Pill

  Gone Away, Ideas, America

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Nobody wants anything bad to happen; the other side isn't evil.

  Alison Pill

  Evil, Want, Sides

  Source: www.glamour.com

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