Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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Elves are cool, man.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
