Karen Lord Quotes
In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.
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I am doing it the it I am doing is the I that is doing it the I that is doing it is the it I am doing it is doing the I that am doing it I am being done by the it I am doing it is doing it
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The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
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I don't want to discuss my breasts with the whole world!
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I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible - is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.
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I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.
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Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.
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In the beginning, God created human beings, which is to say God put the ingredients together, embedded the instructions for building on the template, and put it all into four separate eggs marked 'Some Assembly Required.'
