Karyn Kusama Quotes
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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A free public broadcast license is a privilege.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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The reception for 'Enemy?' I don't care. No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I don't want to direct a Marvel movie. I don't care about those mythologies.
