Karine Vanasse Quotes
I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.
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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
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And as for you, stop having curly hair!
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I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!
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The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
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I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.
