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.Karen Thompson Walker
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West -
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.
Mahesh Babu -
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono -
Elves are cool, man.
Orlando Bloom -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss
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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.
Vidya Balan -
All my life I have fought corruption.
A. K. Antony -
No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
Zola Jesus -
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.
Karl Lagerfeld -
In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
Vera Farmiga -
There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
Natalie Imbruglia
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
Ted Cruz -
I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
Ferdinand Marcos -
The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
Park Chan-wook -
But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
Parker Posey -
I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
Safra A. Catz -
I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
Sam Altman
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It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...
Victor Davis Hanson -
St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
Frank McCourt -
It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
Adam Clayton U2 -
Before we had the Internet, we would either call or write to our friends, one at a time, and keep up with their lives. It was a slow process and took a lot of effort and time to learn about each other.
Om Malik -
Nas is such a touchstone in my world.
Daniel Kaluuya -
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.
Karen Thompson Walker