Karen Fairchild Quotes
I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
 
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	I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.   
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	Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.   
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	The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.   
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	I voted for Barack Obama.   
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	As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.   
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	When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.   
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	The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.   
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	The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.   
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	I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.   
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	The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.   
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	I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.   
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	Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.   
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	I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.   
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	I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.   
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	My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.   
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	We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.   
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	Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.   
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	I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.   
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	My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.   
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	In the long run we are all dead.   
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	I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.   
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	The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.   
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	There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.   
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	I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					