Karen Walker Quotes
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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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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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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 travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!
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OVOXO will always be there.
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When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.
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Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
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I suggest that, if India is to evolve along nonviolent lines, it will have to decentralize many things. Centralization cannot be sustained and defended without adequate force . . .Centralization as a system is inconsistent with non-violent structure of society.
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Many people feel duty-bound to express skepticism as if it were an automatic badge of honor and intellectual superiority. I'd done the same thing in the past, so I could understand the attitude.
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I've been in a lot of shows, I will say that. Every once in a while, I'll look at a tape of something I've done, and I won't even remember having done it.
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Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
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I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.
