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 now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.
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The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
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It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
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I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins.
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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.
