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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A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
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It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band.
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I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.
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The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
