Tom Allen Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.
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It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
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A publisher friend of mine suggested that I write a book about my grandfather, who had just died. I had nothing else to fill my empty days with, so I started work on this book. While researching it - watching lots of movies, talking to moviemakers - I became interested in movies and started making documentaries.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
