Christa B. Allen Quotes
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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In the case of a man and a woman accused of committing a crime together, both will often agree to the man taking the rap-despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience.’
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I don't know about actually doing real productive work on my own car.
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I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'
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The heart ran o'erWith silent worship of the great of old! The dead but sceptred sovereigns, who still ruleOur spirits from their urns.
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I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
