Karen O (Karen Lee Orzolek) Quotes
My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
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Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. Just because we always have doesn’t mean we always have to. Once we know better, we should choose better.
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Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.
