Karl Shapiro Quotes
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.
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I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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I don’t believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I’m excited by style, not so much by fashion.
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There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.
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Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom
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There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
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Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
