Karen Thompson Walker Quotes

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

Karen Thompson Walker

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MorningMindI CanWayWriteClear

One of the things about being online is it's hard to forget people, so it's very easy to stalk an ex, it's very easy to follow what people are doing. It's almost impossible to forget them.

Joanna Coles

PeopleImpossibleDoingEasyForget

The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.

Jennifer Dunn

FamilyDeathGenerationResultTax

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

Jenny Lewis

MyselfArtistNeverBandAlways

A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.

John Darnielle

FireWindListeningSongThinkYou

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

Melanie Griffith

BedEverydayHimMayGetHours

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

MenPastPleasureHurryPursueMost

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

Robert Adams

BeautyHopeWorldCameraMystery

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Ron Perlman

TimeImaginationRealityCameraYou

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

Ruby Dee

LifeConfidencePathTimeYourself

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.

Mike Binder

PeopleTryingYouBackKnowKind

When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.

Luke Rhinehart

MotherManFunHellYoungPersonal

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

Courteney Cox

HomeGreatTimeMeSwimmingThink

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