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 was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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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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As soon as I am able to talk about it I will.
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I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.
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Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.
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I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
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I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
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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.
