Karl Shapiro Quotes

As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.

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• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Work
  • Education
  • Health

• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I don't think about my fame very much.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Think
  • Fame
  • Very

• Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Today
  • Beautiful

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Little

• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Who

• There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Me
  • Confidence

• You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
  • Know
  • Never

• I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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  • City
  • Amazing

• I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Words
  • Prejudice

• We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Way
  • Better
  • Need

• Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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  • Different
  • Character

• In 2010, voters certainly hit the brakes on the Obama presidency. Fast forward to the 2016 election, where voters yanked up on the emergency brake and did a donut in the parking lot. Now, the car has stopped. We sit here dizzy for a moment, looking to get on the road again.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
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  • Car
  • Road

• I am a reserved guy and need somebody to pep me up every day, Upsi does that job perfectly. She is very vivacious and outspoken, so we blend very well. We both love travelling, and we have a thing for adventure. We love being outdoors and like to ride our own boat rather than being rowed by someone else.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Guy
  • Adventure
  • Travelling

• I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Speak

• Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.

  

  Ken Watanabe
  • Different
  • Character

• I see kids who are complete cynics. They're not dreaming. They're out there with high-powered weapons, smoking crack behind the 7-Eleven. They've seen it all. These kids are going to take us into 2000 and beyond. That's scary, man. I wouldn't say I'm pessimistic or optimistic. I'm more realistic, I guess. But not cynical. I look. I watch.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Kids
  • High
  • Scary

• As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.

  

  Karl Shapiro
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