Joan Allen Quotes
I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.
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I will tell you whom to vote for: We will vote for the principles of civil and religious liberty, the man who knows the most and who has the best heart and brain for a statesman; and we do not care a farthing whether he is a Whig, a Democrat, a Barnburner, a Republican, or a New Light or anything else.
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
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I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.
