Karen Allen Quotes
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
 
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	It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.   
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	Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'   
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	I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.   
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	I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.   
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	With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.   
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	Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.   
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	Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.   
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	The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.   
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	One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.   
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	I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.   
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	I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.   
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	I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.   
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	I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.   
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	But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.   
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	As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.   
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	'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.   
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	Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.   
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	I've got a clear line between work and real life.   
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	Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.   
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	Dickens belongs to the English people.   
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	If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.   
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	Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.   
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	I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					