Jan Karon Quotes
Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.
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I've always been pretty serious and introspective.
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When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
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It was only much later that I found out hardness worked better than love.
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Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
