Karen Allen Quotes

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Karen Allen

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• I loved the world of imagination.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Loved

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Liberation

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Up
  • Family
  • Parents

• Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Give
  • Warm
  • Spicy

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Successful

• Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Love
  • House
  • Always

• We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Hope
  • You

• Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Relationship
  • Potential

• I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Music
  • Band
  • Study

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Truth
  • High
  • Judge

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • War
  • Volunteer

• If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Equality

• No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

  

  Emma Anderson
  • Life
  • Art
  • History

• I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Done