Karen Finerman Quotes
I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin.
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I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.
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My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
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I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.
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From Kenny's perspective, when he came into Loggins and Messina, he had been expecting a solo career, but it turned out to be a duo
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
