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Karen Black Quotes

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1939 - August 8, 2013

Topics

Love Truck Week Dead Computer Drove

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

Reality Entertainment Fiction May

You will not get me in one second of an interview criticising another actress for a phenomenal performance.

Jodie Whittaker

Me Performance You Will Interview

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

Stars Together Story Hotel You Line

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

Together Weird House White Kind Try

Life would have been easier for me if I had taken the path of least resistance.

Life Path Me Resistance Been Would

Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn't in sight until it becomes unbearable.

Sophie B. Hawkins

End Uncomfortable Sight Pregnancy

I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Strong Gay White Big Voices Lesbian

Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

Travel Space Growing Up Loved Early

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

You Reason Playing Mythology Because

I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.

Life Passion Age Quality Man Care

From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.

Growth Brain Internet Understanding

There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work in Japan when I was fourteen. My mom went with me until I was seventeen. Her only stipulation was that I had to keep my schoolwork up. My mom was great. She is still my best friend.

Work Friend Opportunity Great Best

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