Karen Black Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I can barely turn on my computer!
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
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I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
