Karen Russell Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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There is more to life than show business.
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On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.
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I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Fashion anticipates.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.
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From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
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Travel's the great educator, especially for the girls. You can't put a value on it.
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It's very special to come back here and work with these folks, ... It's taken a little adjusting to call them by their first names, but I'm getting used to it.
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I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special
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It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
