Karen Hawkins Quotes
I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.
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I'm still wearing Target and hand-me-downs.
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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.
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Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.
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I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
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Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!
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In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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There is no such thing as Something for nothing.
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When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
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I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.
