Taken (TV Mini Series)

Maintenance (2002)

Dakota Fanning: Allie Keys

Quotes 

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  I never met my grandfather but my father told me that he was a very brave man. And with all that'd he'd done, maybe because of he'd done, his favorite thing in all the world was to mow the lawn. My dad said he heard his father talking to a neighbor once. The neighbor asked him how he was and what he'd been doing. And my grandfather said, "I've been cutting the grass and watching it grow. Cutting the grass and watching it grow. Life," he said, "is 90% maintenance."

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  Sometimes people come to a moment where they think they've found that one last chance to be someone else. And they go for it. When it doesn't work out, they spend the rest of their lives looking back over their shoulder at what might have been.

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  People move through their lives sometimes without really thinking about where they're going. Days pile up, and they get sadder and lonelier without really knowing why they're so sad or how they got so lonely. Then something happens. They meet someone who looks a certain way, or has something in their smile. Maybe that's all that falling in love is, finding someone who makes you feel a little less alone.

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  What makes a man who he is? Is it the worst things he's ever done, or the best things he wants to be? When you find yourself in the middle of your life and you're nowhere near where you were going, how do you find a way from the person you've become to the one you know you could've been?

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  People come home for a lot of reasons. They come home to remember. They come home because they've got no place else to go. They come home when they're beaten, they come home when they're proud. They come home looking for a door out into their past or a road out into their future. They come home for a lot of reasons but they always come home to say goodbye.

• Allie Keys : [narrating]  Some people spend their lives hoping for something to happen that will change everything. They look for power or love, or the answers to their biggest questions. I think really what they're looking for is another chance. Some way to lead another life where all the mistakes they've made would be erased, and they could just start over. Nothing bad has happened yet and all their possibilities are still in front of them.