Karen Elson Quotes
I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I've never been a partier.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.
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In my 27 years of calling games for ESPN, I have never ever seen a player take more verbal abuse than he has taken.
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Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.
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Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
