Karolyn Grimes Quotes
I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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I'm not a billionaire, and I'm not a mogul.
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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
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My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
