Karen Thompson Walker Quotes

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

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• It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Fun

• I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Myself
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Confidence

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• A book is a gift you can open again and again.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Book
  • You
  • Gift

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Doing

• Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

  

  Larry David
  • Myself
  • Given
  • Credit

• If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Perspective
  • Critical

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Women
  • Why
  • Book

• Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Bad
  • Myself
  • Now

• At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Bitter
  • Paradise

• So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Support
  • Wish
  • Kind

• I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • People
  • Want
  • Down

• Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

  

  George Clinton
  • Style
  • Confidence

• I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Myself