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 am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I wanted to be a radio announcer.
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From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.
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I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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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.
