Joan Allen Quotes
I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities.
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I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
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'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
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The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.
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The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
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I want to serve my country, but not necessarily in the political arena.
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My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.
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We are complete press sluts.
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I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
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I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.
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I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.
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DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER
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What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?
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I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.
