Karolyn Grimes Quotes
My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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All rappers are princesses like me.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
