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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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
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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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Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.
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Sometimes my mistake has been hesitancy about acting on the decisions I've made. When's the best time to invest? It's today, not tomorrow.
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A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler
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I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.
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There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
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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.
