Joan Allen Quotes
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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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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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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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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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.
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Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.
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If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.
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I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.
