Karen Salmansohn Quotes
If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' wound up becoming a love story even though it was not initially meant to be one.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.
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If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.
