Karen Russell Quotes
Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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'Cockneys vs. Zombies' does exactly what it says on the tin.
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We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some underworld, watch strangers from our past kaleidoscope through us according to some pattern that is both illogical and has its own strange melting truth, and then wake up and have a Pop-Tart?" Why are we talking about fantasy and reality like they're opposed?
