Stephen Karam Quotes
So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
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Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
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I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.
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I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.
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The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting one. When I was an undergraduate, there was a glib notion around that there was no reason to suppose a bad man could be a good writer.
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So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.
