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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In addition to protein, edamame is a great source of fiber and mono-unsaturated fats.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.
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Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.
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The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
