Karen Wheaton Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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We'd be Cuba if there were no Fox News.
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I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
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Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.
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People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
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My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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I'm honored that people would think of me for any big role that is talked about a lot.
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We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing.
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I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.
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This journey from non-dancer to dancer has given me a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. I feel like a different person.
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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
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God has sent no one to this earth purposeless.
