Karen Joy Fowler Quotes
I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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A goal can play an essential role in the psychological situation without being clearly present in consciousness.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.
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Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
