Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I don't like controversy.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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There's no business like show business.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
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The beautiful, the inessential, must be given priority if it was to exist at all.
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Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
