Joan Allen Quotes
Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I got no hate in me.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.
