Karen Russell Quotes
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
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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 could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO
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Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
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It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.
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If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.
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I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
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As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.
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I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.
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You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.
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I take a great deal of value in things that are done by hand or executed by hand.
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You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
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Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
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Get the entire team involved in identifying and evaluating project risks. Everyone looks at the project differently, and sometimes the input from the student intern can be vital.
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The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
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I wanted fans to know that I'm human and not perfect.
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It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
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Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
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Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.
