Jan Karon Quotes
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.
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Women need to become literary 'criminals', break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
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Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
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I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
