Karen Allen Quotes
Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
Quotes to Explore
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Talent is very hot.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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Brands like Starbucks came along and talked about their brand as itself being a community, the idea that Starbucks is what they like to call a 'third place,' which is not their idea; it's the idea of basic citizenry needing a place that is not work, that is not home, where citizens gather.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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The '60s look wasn't something I consciously chose, but in my late teens, I found myself styling my hair in a retro way and liking clothes - the shapes and silhouettes - that were from that era. They just reflected who I was.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
