Karen Black Quotes
If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.
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I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.
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There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.