Karen Elson Quotes
Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I'm not used to getting good reviews.
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.
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You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.
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I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
