Karen Cushman Quotes
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.
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I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
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When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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I do have to admit that teaching, composing, and editing is a bit easier than sitting at the organ or harpsichord for seven straight hours, but I do love to do it anyway! I have found my career changing over the years.
