Karyn Kusama Quotes
I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I love doing every role I do!
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.
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I work very closely with my publisher and just give them tons and tons of music, and then they link that with different songwriters and stuff. I'm basically a workaholic. So, I figured I might as well just start working outside.
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I was struck with that particular passage which says: 'Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all things shall be added unto you.'
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I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.
