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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I enjoy a good fight, and always have, and really just said to myself, 'Look, at the end of my term, it'll be 16 years as attorney general, and I'm ready for new challenges. I'm ready to use my skills in a different way to continue to help people.'
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.
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I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted.
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To write, you have to want something to survive you.
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I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.
