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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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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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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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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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'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.
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I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.
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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.'
