Karen Allen Quotes
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
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When you think about the Americans with Disabilities Act and what it takes for employers sometimes to accommodate a person with disabilities, when we talk about reasonable accommodations - it's doable, but the payoff isn't always obvious right away.
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I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
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Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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Isabell, she treads so lightly, floating in her gipsy dresses Even as her words cut deep, I can't deny the truth in them On the phone, she talks a lot, and me, I listen hopelessly So directionless, I head into oblivion And then I decide to give another random memory To remind her of the first time we sang out to the sea Oh Isabell, you always understood me Please Isabell, forgive me now
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Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.
