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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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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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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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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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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Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
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I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.
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Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.
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Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
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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.
