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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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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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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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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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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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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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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In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.
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Before the Berlin Wall came down, we played behind the Iron Curtain and sang, 'Born in the U.S.A.,' and I thought, 'We're all going to die. The man is going to get us all killed.' But then you saw all these kids with the American flag and German flags together and singing the song, and it was, wow, like 'We Shall Overcome.'
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I'm not a mean person.
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Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.
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It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.
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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.
