Taken (TV Mini Series)

High Hopes (2002)

Dakota Fanning: Allie Keys

Quotes 

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  I have this idea about why poeple do the terrible things they do. Same reason little kids push each other on the schoolyard. If you're the one doing the pushing, then you're not going to be the one who gets pushed. If you're the monster, then nothing will be waiting in the shadows to jump out at you. It's pretty simple, really. Poeple do the terrible things they do because they're scared.

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  My grandfather used to tell my mom that kids should never have to worry about anything more serious than baseball. Everything you need to know is there. It has success and failure, moment where you come together and moments where you stand alone. And it has an ending. Not a clock, like in other sports, but an ending. And that, my grandfather used to say to my mom, is as close as a kid should have to come. To that sort of thing.

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine, they don't fall until they look down? My mom always said that was the secret of life. Never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about not looking. It's about not ever realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  The world is made up of the big things that happen and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them "big" and "small" because when something happens to you, when you lose something or someone that you really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.