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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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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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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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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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.
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My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
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The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
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On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.
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There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.
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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.
