Karina Longworth Quotes
As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
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As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.
