Joan Allen Quotes
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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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.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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.
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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.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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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.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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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.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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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.
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I want to be a major force.
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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.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
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I don't have a political bone in my body.
