Karen Blixen Quotes

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Karen Blixen

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• All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Want

• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Together
  • More

• In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Get

• The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Think

• My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Home
  • New York
  • Walk

• I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Movie
  • Learning
  • Thoughts

• Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Games
  • Product

• Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Help
  • Chinese
  • Cinema

• Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Truth
  • Language
  • Everyone

• My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Philosophy
  • Walk

• I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Things
  • Travel
  • Idea

• When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Kind
  • Feel
  • Doing

• I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Think
  • More
  • Maybe

• I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Up
  • Words
  • Know

• You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Long
  • You
  • Almost

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I've played soccer since I was five.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Soccer
  • Played
  • Five

• I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

  

  Ben Mezrich
  • Style

• I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No...' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Up
  • Time
  • True

• All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

  

  Christian Lous Lange
  • Alone
  • Struggle
  • Survival

• Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Change
  • Attacks
  • Flexible

• All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

  

  Karen Blixen