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
  • Thought

• 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

• I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Me

• 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

• As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Child

• 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

• There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Support
  • Sufficient
  • Store

• My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Why
  • Heaven

• U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Know

• I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

  

  William Shatner
  • Audience
  • Two
  • Months

• You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote.....this is actually a really funny story...'Ghost Of Vincent Price', I've been wanting to write a song about Vincent Price coz he's one of my favorite characters of all time.

  

  Joseph Michael Poole
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Song

• 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