Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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You just have to know your story from the beginning. You have to know what you're going for and be honest with people about that. Don't sit there and say you're gonna be a DIY punk band for your whole life and then move on to arenas; you can't do that because then people don't trust you anymore.
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If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.
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Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.
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I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
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A capable and confident man with a strong desire to accomplish something great, can do anything in life.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
