Karyn Kusama Quotes
I've been asked countless times, 'Why are you drawn to horror films? Why do you think women are drawn to horror films?' And it's because, in a way, it's one of the few genres that tells it like it is. A lot of times, women do feel like they're running for their lives somehow.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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We're concerned there. We gave up five sacks. Two of them were a little situation where we didn't get the alignment the way we wanted it, so it was our fault. But at the same time, we scrambled out of there to save us a couple, too.
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I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.
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When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.
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A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'
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I've been asked countless times, 'Why are you drawn to horror films? Why do you think women are drawn to horror films?' And it's because, in a way, it's one of the few genres that tells it like it is. A lot of times, women do feel like they're running for their lives somehow.
