Karen Allen Quotes
I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.

Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
-
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
-
What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
-
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
-
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
-
Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
-
No one remembers who came in second.
-
It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
-
Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
-
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
-
A lot happens in 20 years.
-
I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
-
I was a complete outsider in high school.
-
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
-
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
-
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
-
Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
-
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
-
You make up your mind what part you want to read for and why. It's kept me focused - on what's important, what I want, and what I don't.
-
I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
-
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
-
All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.
-
I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.