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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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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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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I love being Latina. I love our values, the way we're so in touch with others, our dark humor, how fun we are, how relaxed we are. I love how hard working, independent, and ambitious we are.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
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I really like the Evo from '2Fast.' That car is a lot of fun as a daily driver. They're really quick on the track, too, when they're set up right.
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I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.
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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.
