Karen DeCrow Quotes
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.
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Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.
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Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.
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I think it was interesting to be steeped in that [political] world.
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An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
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The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
