Karen Joy Fowler Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
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These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
