Karen Elson Quotes
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.
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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
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I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.
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Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.
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I was always the weirdo at school.
