Christa B. Allen Quotes
I like to get a rise out of my mom with what I wear - I always go for the tallest heels or something super trendy.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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My record speaks for itself.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.
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I like to get a rise out of my mom with what I wear - I always go for the tallest heels or something super trendy.
