Karen Mills Quotes
One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
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I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes.
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I don't recall that I have said - and I don't think that I really feel - that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood - or even that it would be desirable - to have a single government elected by the people of the world.
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The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
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In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you.
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One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
