Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.
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I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.
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People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]
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No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.
