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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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)
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It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.
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Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.
