Karen Kingsbury Quotes

I write about true-life type things.

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• Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Beauty
  • Same
  • Old

• I'm the blackest villain of all time.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Villain
  • Blackest

• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• You can't control where your heart goes.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Heart
  • You
  • Control

• I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Think
  • Enthusiasm

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Money
  • Walking
  • More

• I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • End
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Humanity
  • Our
  • Egoism

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Curious

• I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Inspiring

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• The factors we have listed (innovation, economies of scale, education, capital accumulation, etc.) are not causes of growth; they are growth.

  

  Douglass North
  • Education
  • Growth
  • Innovation

• Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Society
  • Free

• I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Democracy
  • Equality
  • Social

• Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

  

  Ian Bannen
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Words

• I write about true-life type things.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Life
  • True
  • Things