Karen Black Quotes
I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.
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The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
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I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.
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Connie Smith and I have worked a lot of shows together in the past, and it will be nice to do that again
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
