Joan Allen Quotes
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
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One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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I will find you there where our low life heightens, Where the door of the Wonder again unbars, Where the old love lures and the old fire whitens, In the Stars behind the stars.
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Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
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I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.
