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Karen Kingsbury Quotes

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

Karen Kingsbury

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 8, 1963

Topics

Always Writer Knew Wanted

The more roles there are, the more actors there are.

Most people fill their schedules with work, and leisure only happens when there's time left over. But it's impossible to live a rich and full life without doing things that give you joy. Forget about productivity once in a while and give yourself permission to goof off.

Life Work Live Time Yourself Joy

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

Life Live Time Past Writing Present

I don't wake up every day and think about which tournaments I won and which titles I hold. It's something I don't care about.

Day Wake Up Think Care Every Day Up

For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.

Day Years Out Nonstop Worked

I'm really grounded and quite hippie, wanting to nurture and have children and be quiet.

Children Quiet Hippie Nurture Quite

I have worked with three female first assistant directors - on 'Hostiles,' 'Gone Girl,' and a short film, 'The Human Voice,' and they have all been exceptional.

Girl Voice Short Three Human First

It's not unusual for someone running for Senate in Illinois to come see me.

Christie Hefner

Me Someone See Come Unusual Senate

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

Christine Lahti

You Television Acting First Real

Having failures in life is important to understand where, exactly, you stand.

Life Stand You Important Understand

When I was coming up through the programs with the Amateur Basketball Association, it was height: they looked for the tall players, and they looked to develop us. I was 15 when they first got me.

Me Basketball Tall Height First Up

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

Winston Marshall

Funny Pretty Irritating Get

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