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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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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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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Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'
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When people begin anticipating inflation, it doesn't do you any good anymore, because any benefit of inflation comes from the fact that you do better than you thought you were going to do.
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I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.
