Karen Allen Quotes
In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.
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I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it.
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The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.
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In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
