John R. Allen Quotes
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My father was a lawyer.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
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Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.
