Karen Kain Quotes
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
