Karen Walker Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
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I don't get out to parties often.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
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The windows of my soul are made of one way glassDon't bother looking into my eyesIf there's something you want to know - just ask.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits.
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In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
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This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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Everybody needs a chance to find love.
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I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.
