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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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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.
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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.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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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.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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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.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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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.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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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.
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The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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I feel fine now. It's not an excuse, I really feel fine now.
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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.
