Karyn Kusama Quotes
For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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Animals that are killed for their flesh lead miserable lives. They are kept in disgusting conditions. The simplest little thing you can do not to hurt animals is just not eat them. I'm bringing my four children up vegetarian, and I know absolutely that I'm giving them the very best start in life.
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I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.
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I don't eat the same meal or at the same time every single day. You get tired of that real quick. I just try to make sure whatever I'm eating is fresh and clean and good for my body. That's about it.
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I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had worked for Cirque Du Soleil, and then I did 'Hair.' Then I had a real quiet time, not having work, and it was a time of not only self-discovery of me as a person, but also what I wanted as an artist and actor.
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For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.
