Karen Russell Quotes
When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
Quotes to Explore
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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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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Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.
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I really do hope that the people will like 14:59. The critics seem to like it. We got a lot of good reviews.
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We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.
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Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.
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We Rodriguez and Frank Miller wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.
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Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died?
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I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
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When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
