Karen Elson Quotes
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.
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If, to the end of its existence, America harbors white supremacy, I don't know how remarkable that would be. France has dealt with anti-Semitism since its inception.
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A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.
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I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.
