Kris Allen Quotes
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely. All the idiots that keep coming into the world and wrecking people's lives. And it is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage, okay? That you lose hope - I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day - I'm pretty good - I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk. But, I'm losing hope.
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People want a little excitement. I tell the truth, but I do it theatrically.
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It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!
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The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.
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For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.
