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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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 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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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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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.
