Karen Hesse Quotes
I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.

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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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I was an English major in college!
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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Dream and you shall become.
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I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
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I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
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I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary, feral characters with a hankering for the wilderness.
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In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.
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To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream
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What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.
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I'm here to fight; I'm not here to protect whether you think I'm a good person or not. I've given up on that.
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I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.