Karen Rose Quotes

Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.

Karen Rose

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• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Want
  • Science

• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Dark
  • Poem
  • Redeem

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Busy

• I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Man
  • Energy
  • Find

• I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Know
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

  

  Jenna-Louise Coleman
  • Drama
  • Period

• The one dream I have is to do a musical. I love singing, but most people don't know because I don't sell myself as a musical person. My dream is to play Audrey in 'Little Shop of Horrors' - it would be so interesting to have an Asian Audrey because it's all about achieving the American dream in a sinister, success-driven way.

  

  Constance Wu
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Support

• I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Sick

• When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Know
  • Chances

• Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was geographically. I had visited once. I thought of it as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich, and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue. Compared to Pakistan, the streets are paved with gold.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • America
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Death
  • Groups

• I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Girl
  • Change
  • Beginning

• Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.

  

  Karen Rose
  • Opportunity
  • Choices
  • Fate