James Lane Allen Quotes
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.
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I'm not a big jazz fan.
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If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
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It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
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'Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.'
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else.
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People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.
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I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.
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I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.
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I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.
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Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.
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Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
