Karyn Kusama Quotes
One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
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I think the goal is always to be both. I put more effort into the technical side of my riding, but style is very important nowadays.
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Caress the detail, the divine detail.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.
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One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.
