Dorothy Allison
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IAN ALLISON Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is someth... ALLISON TOLMAN Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. W... ALLISON ANDERS Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It... ALLISON TOLMAN When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some ... ALLISON WILLIAMS I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not ap... ALLISON TOLMAN I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not ap... ALLISON TOLMAN All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. MOSE ALLISON Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but... ALLISON WILLIAMS ERIC ALLISON It's easier to quote poets than to read them. ALLISON BARROWS Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Lo... ALLISON MACK But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job. LUTHER ALLISON I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play. LUTHER ALLISON I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there ... LUTHER ALLISON When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella... ALLISON WILLIAMS I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best ... ALLISON TOLMAN There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as... ALLISON WILLIAMS Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into ... ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you. ALLISON ANDERS Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were d... MOSE ALLISON Catherine Keener is everyone's dream sister slash mom slash aunt. ALLISON WILLIAMS You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and d... AMBER ALLISON We would especially like to thank our Mom and Dad and our family for supporting us. AMBER ALLISON The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts o... AMBER ALLISON We also met casting directors and others in the field and got to find out what they did and they wer... AMBER ALLISON Then we started going once a month to Pennsylvania and would practice reading commercials and on the... AMBER ALLISON It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed me around camp... AUNDRAE ALLISON Me and James communicated prior to the play. Their corners were playing a lot of cover three zones, ... AUNDRAE ALLISON It was huge for us. That's the kind of thing that the team works so hard to just to come to this day... AUNDRAE ALLISON That sounds great to me. I want that. I want to show what I can do and showcase my talent. AUNDRAE ALLISON It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight fro... AUNDRAE ALLISON I was planning on doing something, but I wanted to act like I've been in the end zone before. AUNDRAE ALLISON I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we ha... AUNDRAE ALLISON For cardio, I do SoulCycle. I really don't like to run, plus I have terrible knees and get bored... ALLISON WILLIAMS Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure vic... ALLISON PEARSON Maybe, I want to be a teacher. ALLISON WILLIAMS Before the race, I had to go to the end infield and they had me stand on the stage. They gave me a b... ALLISON WILLIAMS They came in my class and told me (I won). ALLISON WILLIAMS They gave us the topic and I just drew on the topic. ALLISON WILLIAMS It was nice to pull together and do it. We didn't want our season to end. It was just unbelievable. ALLISON WILLIAMS Customers look for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and tech... ALLISON WATSON Only companies that have demonstrated high levels of customer service, proved their experience and a... ALLISON WATSON We are providing the tools to train partners to deliver the people-ready message and supporting them... ALLISON WATSON The training component will support partners by helping them clearly tell the story of people-ready. ALLISON WATSON We're saying if you want to get people-ready, get it from our partners, here are our partners. So fa... ALLISON WATSON We started the push by presenting to partners the importance of people being at the center of how Mi... ALLISON WATSON The people-ready vision is not only for Microsoft to create opportunity, but it's also about creatin... ALLISON WATSON This research is industry-changing [in terms of] partner profitability. It's grounded in real key pe... ALLISON WATSON We place tremendous value on our partners, who help us deliver solutions and applications to custome... ALLISON WATSON Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands a... ALLISON WATSON Many household chemicals meet at least one of these criteria to varying degrees. ALLISON TEETERS Overall, I think the teachers really enjoyed knowing there is a resource out there. ALLISON TEETERS The teachers liked the fact there are so many resources at their fingertips because the Web site has... ALLISON TEETERS It's a diverse enough program that they could apply it to anything, depending upon what they're stud... ALLISON TEETERS Steeleville, I think we kind of came in with our heads a little high, expectations a little too high... ALLISON SPENCE I am extremely happy with the playing (on Saturday). This was a tournament we thought that we could ... ALLISON SPENCE We had some rest even though we were down with injuries. I had one player out with a swollen thyroid... ALLISON SPENCE Allie really stepped up, and Allie was very strong (Saturday), she was great on defense. Allie was e... ALLISON SPENCE We rolled (against Christian Fellowship Academy). When the momentum is in our favor we are an extrem... ALLISON SPENCE I was pleased with the girls. The first game we held with them for a while. ALLISON SPENCE (The Lady Crusaders) were intimidating, even though we didn't really look intimidated. They just hav... ALLISON SPENCE It was definitely the most errors we've committed and they were setting errors. It wasn't our defens... ALLISON SPENCE Then, they took off on us. ALLISON SPENCE We went out in our (van) and we were just talking about how we had to stay focused. Even though ther... ALLISON SCHLINKERT We were just focused. We just had to keep playing our game and not worry about how they were winning... ALLISON SCHLINKERT You never come in expecting to lose. You're confident in your team and what you can do. ALLISON SCHLINKERT Our team this year gets along great. We hang out all the time, and we all are having fun. ALLISON SCHLINKERT It'll be a great team, and it'll be a great match. ALLISON SCHLINKERT I don't even know how to describe it. I'm just so incredibly excited. We played well. We stayed enth... ALLISON SCHLINKERT The album has a lot of true stories in there. We did three full tours last year, so there were a lot... ALLISON ROBERTSON It's very collaborative. We like to get everybody's opinion, just like we did we were in eighth grad... ALLISON ROBERTSON It makes you feel like, wow, there are people who aren't jaded, who enjoy watching rock music, havin... ALLISON ROBERTSON We needed a little more variety, some different tempos and textures. It was not a plan to go for som... ALLISON ROBERTSON Our manager expected us to throw things at him, ... but I said, 'I'll do it! Yeah!' and the rest of ... ALLISON ROBERTSON It's cool. I complain every summer that I don't get to go to fairs anymore -- I always used to go as... ALLISON ROBERTSON The female bond, I have to say, ALLISON ROBERTSON It teaches you to be considerate of people, to work together as a team to succeed and play off each ... ALLISON NERMOE I could see it from own my experience. ALLISON NERMOE It just sounded like it would be fun to see people grow and to help them get well. It'd be a new exp... ALLISON NERMOE I've been really happy with how they've played and they've really stepped up this year. Very proud o... ALLISON NERMOE I was kind of worried, but coach (Wiles) thought it was a good idea, so I did it and it was fun. I l... ALLISON NERMOE It provided quite a strong figure for Q3. ALLISON MONTGOMERY I think that it looks like what the market is doing is starting to look to Thursday's ECI and GDP nu... ALLISON MONTGOMERY I think at the moment what they are trying to do is limit yen strength, given the fact that Japanese... ALLISON MONTGOMERY Fundamentals will determine the level of dollar-yen, and the fundamentals still argue for a higher d... ALLISON MONTGOMERY It's not rocket science. I blush at calling myself an inventor. ALLISON MILLS I'm just gonna stay away from the caffeine. ALLISON MILLS I've found that people really want to help you. But at the same time you have to really put yourself... ALLISON MILLS We still haven't heard back (from the patent office). We had a dilemma. Wait two whole years (for th... ALLISON MILLS It was not very functional. ALLISON MILLS I've heard stories of people who have done this and who have a garage full of stuff that just sits. ... ALLISON MILLS Lindsay is a really good pitcher, and she has been hitting her spots. I think we fed off her energy ... ALLISON MERZON It was time for a rally, we turned our jackets inside out and from there our bats woke up. ALLISON MERZON We don?t have to put up a lot of hits to score. ALLISON MERZON This is the most balanced, the deepest and the best hitting team we ever had. We have kids on our be... ALLISON MERZON It's an absolute tribute to how hard Kim has worked. ALLISON MCNEILL No question she's got skills, some coach has to recognize it. One of the things she does is make oth... ALLISON MCNEILL She has an unbelievable passion for the game, a passion for work. She's really made herself into a g... ALLISON MCNEILL After the 2000 Olympics, veteran players came back wanting to pursue the goal of qualifying for a wo... ALLISON MCNEILL Our comeback in the second half was sparked by the contributions of the players coming off of the be... ALLISON MCNEILL It was a great effort to get an 18-point turn around. ALLISON MCNEILL It was one of our best defensive efforts of the summer, ALLISON MCNEILL The first big issue is 'if', because a lot of people are still talking 'if' - and that's a fundament... ALLISON MCGEER We know from the testing that's been done so far that this is not influenza, we know this is not SAR... ALLISON MCGEER SARS gave everyone … new respect for respiratory viruses. ALLISON MCGEER There are literally hundreds of viruses that can cause these types of outbreaks. It is still likely ... ALLISON MCGEER There are many other viruses it could be. The Ontario Public Health lab is working very hard on iden... ALLISON MCGEER Even though it doesn't prevent all illnesses, it is effective at preventing serious illness and deat... ALLISON MCGEER This year looks good so far. ALLISON MAIRE
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