Karen Russell Quotes
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I just went, '*cough, cough, cough* You wanna egg rorr?'
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
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The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.
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It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.
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The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
