Karen Duffy Quotes

My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.

Karen Duffy

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Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

Jessie Cave

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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Melinda Gates

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I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man.

Maurice Sendak

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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

Amy Goodman

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For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing.

Steven Van Zandt

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No addiction is good.

Jose Mujica

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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

Jonathan Dee

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I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.

Christopher Voss

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Great music, timeless music is hard to come by, but there are some that are like that.

Tionne Watkins

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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Martin Buber

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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Martha Gellhorn

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