Karen Kijewski Quotes
[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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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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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.
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[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.
