#lace

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. ↗

— Fred Allen

#bad #competition #good #good actor #great

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things. ↗

— Joan Allen

#angry #different #different things #drew #girl

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it. ↗

— Joan Allen

#adult #i #i think #knew #place

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing. ↗

— Krista Allen

#always #amazing #basically #because #caesar

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#bias #coast #east #east coast #fact

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#being #capable #experience #fact #go

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again. ↗

— Rick Allen

#booze #brought #certainly #i #i think

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#far #gotten #i #into #know

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter. ↗

— James F. Amos

#because #besides #bidding #canceled #fighter

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it. ↗

— Tori Amos

#beautiful places #cornwall #downside #great #great people