"I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Karen Allen

#Independent Quotes

“I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.”

Source : "Central Casting" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 29, 2006.
“I like the idea of having a film that is choreographic in all its aspects, not only in the dancing scenes, but also in the way the camera and the characters move in order to have that feeling that it's always musical.”
“Married life is an existence with bars around it.”
“Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.”
“Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.”
“Something that I wanted to do through the film is try to explore the roots of belief, because everything has to do with beliefs. When I studied the side of the rationalists and the skeptics, and the side of the believers and so-called psychics, I found out that both of them, no matter what they claim to do, behave in a very similar way. They only accepted what confirmed their previous positions, and tended to reject everything that put them at risk.”
“The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.”
“The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.”

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