Karen Elson Quotes
I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
