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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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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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.
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As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.
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As Chairman of the Ways and Means committee, I am proud to have written about half of the American Health Care Act that passed the House so we can finally provide Americans with patient-centered healthcare that fits your family's needs.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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.
