Karen Katz Quotes

Back when I was 15 or 16, in Dallas there was a department store called Sanger-Harris. One holiday season, I got a job as a gift wrapper there. The others were all experts who did that job every year, and I was by far the youngest person, who was totally inexperienced. In those days, department stores around Christmastime were a total frenzy.

Karen Katz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1947

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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.

Joe Haldeman

TrainingStoryThinkShortNowPoet

Kiss will always be Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley to me.

Andy Biersack

KissMeWillAlwaysPaulGene

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Amber Frey

TruthStormDoing The Right ThingYou

If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.

Robert Crumb

WorkArtMoneySocietyGameYou

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.

Michelle Paver

WritingBookPlanYouYourEven

I've played the game for a long time.

Jason Kidd

TimeGameLongLong TimePlayed

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Claude Levi-Strauss

ChildTreatHeightRightHimSystem

Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

Peter Morgan

GodTogetherPeopleBeliefNo Sense

I don't really trust a sane person.

Lyle Alzado

TrustPersonSaneReally

I'm kind of a warrior for love, and I wear my heart on my sleeve.

Lili Reinhart

LoveHeartWarriorKindWearSleeve

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Leonard Nimoy

MyselfProcessEndProductImageUp

I know a lot of brown actors who play terrorists because they're physically intimidating. For me, it was like, 'O.K., you'll be the nerd.' So I've played the nerd. I've played food-delivery guys. But I always tried to find something in the characters so that they weren't just defined by what they looked like.

Kumail Nanjiani

MeYouFindPlayKnowAlways

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