Karin Ireland Quotes
Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.
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It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.
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I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
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It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music.
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Nicole and I worked together on Dogville and we were friends when we started this. That laid the groundwork for our fabulous relationship on screen and off.
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But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.
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I think with improv - and I say it all the time because it's become such a catch thing that you talk about improv - if the scene is well-written, you don't need to improv. But that being said, if something strikes you in the moment and, most importantly, you know where the scene is supposed to go, it's no different than method acting.
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I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.
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We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.
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Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.
