Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?
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If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.
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I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
