Karen Joy Fowler Quotes
I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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The worst thing for me is to not taste what I'm eating, to not know what I'm eating. It upsets me to no avail.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Before every show, I eat half a rotisserie chicken.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
