Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.Karen Thompson Walker
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden -
So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
Omari Hardwick -
This bikini made me a success.
Ursula Andress -
If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
Zach Wamp -
Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
Vanessa Paradis -
I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
Vernon Wells
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
Dan Quinn -
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi -
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
T-Pain -
I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
Maajid Nawaz -
I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
Dan Hicks -
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
Warren Spector -
L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan -
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
Randy West -
I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
Hal Holbrook -
I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
Famke Janssen -
I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
Edd Byrnes
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And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now.
Peter Krause -
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
Walter Reisch -
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
Patti Smith -
I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.
Angela Ahrendts -
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
Fiona Apple -
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
Karen Thompson Walker