Karyn Kusama Quotes
I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
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Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
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I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.
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Many a bard's untimely death Lends unto his verses breath; Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.
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There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
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I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.
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I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
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Throughout my life, I have held the strongest belief that if you write down what you want to accomplish in your life: your dreams, goals, hopes and aspirations, you are much more likely to achieve them. I have been writing down my goals since I was a kid, and I've had more success than I could have ever dreamed of... one goal at a time.
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Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.
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Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.
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I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.
