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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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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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 am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!
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The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
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Connecticut has a proud tradition of manufacturing going back to the days of Eli Whitney.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it.
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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.
