Allen Klein Quotes
You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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We are going to position ourselves as a world-class financial institution. We want to do things that are comparable to the best in the world. At the same time, we want to have very strong human qualities.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
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I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.
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You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
