Karen Robards Quotes
I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
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Like other German theorists of the state, Carl Schmitt held to the idea that politics is always about violence; if we really and truly disagree with other people, we ought to treat them as enemies. Fish does not follow Schmitt this far. To be sure, he fills his books with examples of people who ought to, and usually do, hate each other: secular liberals dealing with religious fundamentalists; full-stop opponents of affirmative action confronting those who support it; defenders of speech codes and critics of hate-crime laws.
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
