Karyn Kusama Quotes
It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.
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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
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My parents worry all the time because I trust people very easily.
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I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.
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The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.
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It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.
