Karen Russell Quotes
I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Women are sacred.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
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I did a movie called 'The Hole' with this kid Nathan Gamble, so when I'm old and wrinkly, he could play me. He's awesome.
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We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.
