Karen Kain Quotes
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.
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As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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Some people die, others just run out of fuel.
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Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.
