Karen Blixen Quotes
It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature - that is the true carnival!
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
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Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.
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There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?
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It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature - that is the true carnival!
