Karen Kingsbury Quotes
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Quotes to Explore
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
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Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.
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That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.
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Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
