Tom Allen Quotes
But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.
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I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'
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Closed.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'
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The more you draw, the better you get.
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I feel really comfortable and cute in bikini bottoms that have thick sides.
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But that mimosa grove-the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since-until at last, twenty-four years later, I broke her spell by incarnating her in another.
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But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
