Karen Thompson Walker Quotes
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
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As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
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A happy and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness. (1)
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Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
