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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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
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What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
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I do not believe on giving amnesty.
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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.
