Maira Kalman Quotes
I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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You have to be yourself.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
