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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Those who are going to be in business tomorrow are those who understand that the future, as always, belongs to the brave.
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
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I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.
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I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth.
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As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.
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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.
