Karyn Kusama Quotes
For me, I guess I feel like the notion of 'feel good' entertainment... I'm all for it, but I just think you really, really, really have to earn it. I'm not sure I have a lot of movies in me where I see a world that earns it.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
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There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.
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For me, I guess I feel like the notion of 'feel good' entertainment... I'm all for it, but I just think you really, really, really have to earn it. I'm not sure I have a lot of movies in me where I see a world that earns it.
