Karen Civil Quotes
While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren't in 'XXL' or 'The Source.'
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
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What's in my pocket?You never knewYou didn't know me wellSo well, as I knew you
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I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.
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Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
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I don't do camps. Camps are for kids. I don't sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don't tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day.
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While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren't in 'XXL' or 'The Source.'
