Karen Kain Quotes
What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.
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The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
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I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.