Koren Zailckas Quotes
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.
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I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
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When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.
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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
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I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.
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I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
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You must relate athletic experiences to life.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!
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The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
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I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.