Karen Kain Quotes
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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I love writing songs.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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You know what a wifey means? It's like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that's your wife!
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Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
