Karen Elson Quotes
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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When fixing problems, always do the least you can.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
