Kara Lindsay Quotes
I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
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Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
