Karen Elson Quotes
I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
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Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
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The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
