J. Allen Boone Quotes
The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.
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I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
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Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.
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Now that Hillary Clinton has won Pennsylvania, it will take a village to help Obama escape from the suffocating embrace of his rival. Certainly Howard Dean will be of no use steering her to the exit. It's like Micronesia telling Russia to denuke.
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So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
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The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
