Karen Allen Quotes
A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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It Is possible to live in peace.
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The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.
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My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.
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I do believe in sending positive messages. I am a Christian, so I do believe in a lot of positive messages.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
