Joan Allen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
-
On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
-
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
-
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
-
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
-
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
-
Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
-
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
-
I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
-
The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
-
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
-
From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
-
The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
-
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
-
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
-
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
-
I want to be a major force.
-
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
-
It's really, really easy to make excuses as to why we can't go to the gym. If you can find time to sit in front of the TV for 45 minutes, you can find time to work out.
-
I'm a great jazz fan.
-
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
-
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting people work their way out of poverty without undermining community health, we have a moral obligation to do so.
-
The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king. … Kings have often been selected this way in European history, and the Roman Emperor was regularly chosen by election.
-
I don't have a political bone in my body.
