Karen Allen Quotes
I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
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Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
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Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?
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I'm her protection! I don't care if it's in this world or the next. Just show me how to get where she is, and I'll be there for her. ~Stark
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I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.
