Karen Elson Quotes

I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.

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• Snobbery just inhibits you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Just
  • Snobbery

• My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Brother

• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Think

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Security
  • NATO
  • Cornerstone

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Music
  • Thought

• I like to give people more than their money's worth.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Money
  • Worth

• You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Best

• A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Family
  • Death
  • Couple

• We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Smart
  • Leadership

• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Career
  • Others
  • Ahead

• He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Enough
  • Will

• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Year

• I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Children
  • Night
  • Affairs

• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • Funny
  • More

• I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Training
  • New
  • Formal

• The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Support
  • Totalitarian

• No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Believe
  • Wish
  • Wishes

• You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • True
  • Me
  • Idea

• I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Feel

• You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Death
  • Feel

• I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Feel
  • Down
  • Almost