I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don't like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else's hands.


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I just want to act. I just want to do the work.
ALISON LOHMAN
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
ALISON LOHMAN
I don't know... I don't want people to know everything about me.
ALISON LOHMAN
I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.
ALISON LOHMAN
For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard ...
ALISON LOHMAN
But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.
ALISON LOHMAN
But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and per...
ALISON LOHMAN
The competition was Coke vs. Pepsi 10 years ago. Our business has evolved over the past 10 years, an...
ALISON LEWIS
So far it [the program] has been great. We have to see how it goes and then gauge its strength. If i...
ALISON LEWIS
The Academy Awards have become much bigger than a night on TV. It has become something we can build ...
ALISON LEWIS
You can never predict ratings. It's more about the association with these marquee entertainment even...
ALISON LEWIS
We didn't think it was ours at halftime. We came back when we played them, and we knew they could do...
ALISON LACEY
I think we didn't play our style of basketball in the second half. I don't know what happened, but y...
ALISON LACEY
I knew Amanda was out (in the first quarter), and I had to take control a bit and just be a good lea...
ALISON LACEY
We definitely don't think about it like we're the favorite; not at all. We know every game is going ...
ALISON LACEY
I think we were a little bit overwhelmed by the atmosphere, but we came back and I'm so proud of the...
ALISON LACEY
She's very efficient; we always know she's going to finish when she gets the ball down low. It's nic...
ALISON LACEY
We were working hard during the (holiday) break, and we came out and we were ready to play. We came ...
ALISON LACEY
If we win state, then we will be No. 1.
ALISON LACEY
We have depth. We know that anybody can come in and play and have good games. Tonight, I thought eve...
ALISON LACEY
Everybody was really welcoming and friendly. They made me feel welcome at all times. I didn't feel u...
ALISON LACEY
On a creative level, I think the songs are simpler in that they're more direct. To be commercially s...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
We shot it on blue screen, so it was this great big ugly, metal, weird, jerky horse-thing that Brad ...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
I remember everyone made this big deal out of it,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
They seem to have these personalities that are very generic and so I can't really relate to them. I ...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
People say that sort of thing and I just think, nah,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
It's like they're a separate identity to the whole music and imagery,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
I think I heard it once on Top Of The Pops and thought it was very bland,
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that...
ALISON GOATE
One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.
ALISON GOATE
We looked in a region of chromosome 7, where there are hundreds of genes, and we noticed that there ...
ALISON GOATE
When we understand more about the genes and the environmental factors that influence someone's risk,...
ALISON GOATE
The region of DNA identified in our study showed evidence of replication in four independent series ...
ALISON GOATE
There are a few genes that have been implicated in the development of early-onset Alzheimer's diseas...
ALISON GOATE
We don't know which of those genes is most likely to harbor this particular risk factor for Alzheime...
ALISON GOATE
In earlier work, we had identified chromosome 7 as a region where there was likely to be a gene-infl...
ALISON GOATE
The take-home message here is that we really need to think about body-image dissatisfaction in boys ...
ALISON FIELD
The take-home message here is that we really need to think about body-image dissatisfaction in boys ...
ALISON FIELD
We found that to be a very strong predictor of starting to use vomiting or laxatives to control weig...
ALISON FIELD