Karen Bender Quotes
It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.

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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.
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Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!
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When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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I think that's the responsibility of the CEO and the CEOs below me: to make sure that we're constantly putting people in places where they have the opportunity to develop into those careers but also having a rewards and recognition system that allows a great programmer to stay as a great programmer.
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It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.