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'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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'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'
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I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.
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One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.
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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.
