Alison Sudol Quotes

Alison Sudol

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 23, 1984

I lived in Washington from when I was born to when I was 5.

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How many women have been in a mental institution because they've been called crazy when they're just not allowed to be honest or be who they are?

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I won't do the same thing over and over again.

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As a musician, you kinda get used to failure in life, and then when things actually start succeeding, it's a very interesting feeling.

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Even when my every inclination is to be otherwise, I don't want to live my life on the dark side of things. Sometimes that takes a little bit of effort, and when that's the case music is the way that I totally make sense of things.

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Los Angeles has got its own distinct feel, and it's very contrary to the music that I write and the pictures I see in my head: no evergreens, no fog, no rain days.

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The song 'Almost Lover' is very important to me, because when I wrote it, I threw everything away. That kind of set the bar as a writer, as a singer, as a person.

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In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.

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It seems to me, personally, that the things that are great during Christmastime are magnified. Like everything is that much better. Everything is magical and spectacular. The things that are wrong or sad are just so much more wrong or sad.

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A boy I adored when I was 19 gave me the 'Emigrante' album by Orishas. Definitely not my normal taste, but I still kind of love it.

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Besides a princess and a ballerina and a firefighter and a vet, I think I wanted to be an artist.

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I actually wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, but I did a solid geometry course where we had to build a geodesic dome out of toothpicks, and mine came out looking like an alien space station. I threw it against a wall and gave up.

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Singing has an impact on the human body.

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I don't love my speaking voice, frequently - but I think that we need music, and when a person sings, those kind of vibrations go through your body, it's amplified in the room. It goes through everyone else's body, too.

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I was worried that acting would somehow ruin any credibility I had as a musician.

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With music, every decision you make is a reflection on who you are - I'll obsess over the color palette for a record and the promo materials. With acting, it's not just your ideas. You're one part of a working machine.

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To me, the making of art and experiences around that are the biggest part to me.

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I don't like to yell.

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If you're gonna steal from somebody, why not Shakespeare?

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I just love the holidays so much.

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