Kim Edwards Quotes
I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
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Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
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The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.
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I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I just shot my first dramatic movie in France, and for those dramatic scenes that I shot, I would not want to look at those. There's a certain mindset you have to put yourself into for those scenes, and looking at the monitor would just take you out of it.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything.
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I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.
