FastSaying

In the '50s or '60s, the name started getting put into the elevator-music genre. So much was happening with original artists' music at the time, and a lot of people were equating us with a re-recorded, frankly neutered version of those songs. They didn't like it at all, and we started getting a bad brand connotation. It's something we're always going to have to deal with.


Karen Vigeland

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES That was a fluke. I'd recorded a lot of stuff for this record. I worked on it over a year. Toward th...
LEE ROCKER In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young ar...
KIM GORDON There were so many things going on at that time. For the band and personally, with everyone getting ...
KJARTAN SVEINSSON They started getting excited and playing with more enthusiasm. We just put it together. We started p...
KURT SIMON I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love ...
JENNIFER EGAN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN In ?66 when we were playing that music, people were flipping out with anger at that music and hated ...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into loude...
MIKE D By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &...
JACK WAGNER We kind of got one hit at a time and started getting a rally going. I was really glad with the way w...
DEREK DOUGAN There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The rati...
BONNIE RAITT I moved back to Rochester when Hard Rain was on the verge of getting a deal. A lot of cool bands wer...
MIKE MAENZA Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE We were having so much trouble getting the cars feeling the same, I started questioning the work the...
DAVE MARCIS It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and rele...
JUSTINE SKYE I think a lot of people were taken aback last summer that so much construction was happening at the ...
CAMI GRICHEL The (lack of size) is something we're going to have to deal with for the season. Did we play well? I...
JOE CACCIATORE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I started collecting vinyl since I was about 14. But prior to that, I was always interested in knowi...
CILLA CALDERON Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I love Christmas music and there's nothing like getting together with friends at Christmas time to c...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Count...
CHET ATKINS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. ...
AHMIR QUESTLOVE THOMPSON You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of p...
DON MCLEAN At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggre...
YANDEL Maybe there'll be new bits of music that will start showing up. You know? Like what happened in the ...
JAN HAMMER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. [Through her Many Different Roads record label, Knight wants to reach out to others wanting a music ...
GLADYS KNIGHT If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
CRAIG GROESCHEL O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st...
MANDY MOORE We were pleased with the shots we were getting, we just didn't hit anything. Defensively, we did a p...
DAN STROJAN I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Pri...
JILL SCOTT A lot of those fouls were on 3s, too, so she'd take three at a time. As a team, we finally came out ...
JENNIFER GODINHO We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people...
JIM ANGELL When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southe...
TOM ARAYA If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for...
NATALIA KILLS We called both the music and the videos CKY because that's all we did, ... I recorded music all nigh...
BAM MARGERA You look back at the '95 season, and a lot of those guys were getting mega minutes. Michael Jord...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that...
ERIC CARR We talked to people at all levels about music. The next thing you know, we had tapped a nerve with m...
ANDREW SHAPTER Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w...
WYNTER GORDON That will be an effort not so much in selling the brand as getting people on the same page with the ...
DAMANI J. LEECH Yeah, by the seventh game things started getting real crazy. I was getting double-teamed, triple-tea...
ELVIS DUMERVIL We've been playing a lot since the last album came out, so the music sort of developed in its own wa...
BILL ARDISON They were coming at us with eight- and nine-man fronts. As the second half progressed, we weren't ge...
BOB EASTLAND I think in some way, there aren't a lot of people making pop music with sincerity, ... We offer a sl...
DARREN HAYES It started with peasants, who played their music at the end of the day or week. It was a way for the...
JUAN MORALES When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the wr...
DAMIEN RICE Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 o...
CHRISTA B. ALLEN When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various...
ANDY ROURKE Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these ...
ICE CUBE He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...
E.M. FORSTER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything ...
ERIC CARR The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL A lot of them also looked a little further down the line in the future than we did. We always did ev...
RICHARD PETTY I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whethe...
RIVERS CUOMO I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to...
TODD MCFARLANE Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY (The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it...
HASSAN ADAMS It was such a blur. All we saw was that the shows were getting bigger. It's like people say, a lot o...
DARIUS RUCKER We stopped doing the 'elevator music' thing almost three decades ago. We still have a program that h...
KAREN VIGELAND (Competing at the North Canton is) going to help us out a lot. Some of us were getting a little cock...
ANTHONY DOTSON Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some...
MARTIN SHEEN Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY We were working... with Frank Sinatra. He was in the main room, and we were in the lounge. It was a ...
BOBBY HATFIELD At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to crea...
JILL SOLOWAY Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It start...
AL JOURGENSEN

More Karen Vigeland

Most now are requesting a pop music and rock sound, of Top 40 and radio hits.
KAREN VIGELAND We stopped doing the 'elevator music' thing almost three decades ago. We still have a program that h...
KAREN VIGELAND After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the...
KAREN DECROW How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle...
KAREN DECROW There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
KAREN BLACK We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the fu...
KAREN KAIN Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
KAREN KAIN Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
KAREN KAIN The facts are on our side.
KAREN HUGHES We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
KAREN HUGHES And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to mem...
KAREN HUGHES I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
KAREN HUGHES Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
KAREN HUGHES For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Co...
KAREN HUGHES I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered hi...
KAREN HUGHES I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a...
KAREN HUGHES And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
KAREN HUGHES Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly ru...
KAREN HUGHES I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigor...
KAREN HUGHES In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris,...
KAREN HUGHES The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work ...
KAREN HUGHES Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to rea...
KAREN HUGHES As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
KAREN HUGHES The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
KAREN HUGHES Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
KAREN HORNEY Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
KAREN HORNEY Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
KAREN HORNEY I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural labore...
KAREN HESSE Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why ...
KAREN HESSE From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive an...
KAREN HESSE While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an amb...
KAREN HESSE In life, sometimes you just lose.
KAREN HANDEL Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
KAREN HANDEL I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.
KAREN HANDEL I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married,...
KAREN HANDEL I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich...
KAREN HANDEL Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.
KAREN HANDEL I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not thro...
KAREN HANDEL It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, De...
KAREN HANDEL Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
KAREN HANDEL People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.
KAREN HANDEL These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should n...
KAREN HANDEL Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.
KAREN HANDEL I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
KAREN HANDEL Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
KAREN HANDEL It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a ...
KAREN HANDEL I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are.....
KAREN HANDEL Bullies always have another target.
KAREN HANDEL I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, s...
KAREN HANDEL I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow fro...
KAREN HANDEL I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
KAREN HANDEL It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of ...
KAREN HANDEL Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
KAREN HANDEL I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
KAREN HANDEL I do not support a livable wage.
KAREN HANDEL We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because...
KAREN HANDEL I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks lik...
KAREN GILLAN My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a li...
KAREN GILLAN I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and ...
KAREN GILLAN I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the dif...
KAREN GILLAN The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many p...
KAREN GILLAN I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, s...
KAREN GILLAN Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.
KAREN GILLAN I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never...
KAREN GILLAN I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't...
KAREN GILLAN I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
KAREN GILLAN I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make my...
KAREN GILLAN I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
KAREN GILLAN I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal li...
KAREN GILLAN I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that...
KAREN GILLAN Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so...
KAREN GILLAN Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
KAREN GILLAN I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit ...
KAREN GILLAN I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
KAREN GILLAN How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you ...
KAREN GILLAN Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
KAREN GILLAN I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creatin...
KAREN GILLAN I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or br...
KAREN GILLAN It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work ou...
KAREN GILLAN I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in ...
KAREN GILLAN I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
KAREN GILLAN I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass...
KAREN GILLAN I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is...
KAREN FINERMAN I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a hig...
KAREN FINERMAN Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, b...
KAREN FINERMAN Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The k...
KAREN FINERMAN I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing ...
KAREN FINERMAN I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no cu...
KAREN FINERMAN Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
KAREN FINERMAN I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he...
KAREN FINERMAN Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of ...
KAREN FINERMAN You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
KAREN FINERMAN As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, th...
KAREN FINERMAN I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my...
KAREN FINERMAN Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have natural...
KAREN FINERMAN I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I ...
KAREN FINERMAN Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and...
KAREN FINERMAN When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turne...
KAREN FINERMAN I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel quali...
KAREN FINERMAN Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
KAREN FINERMAN I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortu...
KAREN FINERMAN When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fo...
KAREN FINERMAN Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why b...
KAREN FINERMAN Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
KAREN FINERMAN As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A...
KAREN FINERMAN Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse fo...
KAREN FINERMAN It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, ...
KAREN FINERMAN I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the ...
KAREN FAIRCHILD I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, a...
KAREN FAIRCHILD Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of mu...
KAREN FAIRCHILD My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always...
KAREN FAIRCHILD The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration...
KAREN FAIRCHILD There's nothing better than a glass of wine, a girlfriend, and a long talk.
KAREN FAIRCHILD I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel ...
KAREN ELSON I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
KAREN ELSON Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outca...
KAREN ELSON I was always the weirdo at school.
KAREN ELSON Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
KAREN ELSON I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it com...
KAREN ELSON There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't ...
KAREN ELSON I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became ...
KAREN ELSON It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long,...
KAREN ELSON It's just this huge sense of relief I have with myself right now... It took me to be 31 to go, &...
KAREN ELSON I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I ...
KAREN ELSON I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It...
KAREN ELSON Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if c...
KAREN ELSON As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to wor...
KAREN ELSON Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. Y...
KAREN ELSON I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. ...
KAREN ELSON I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
KAREN ELSON I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancho...
KAREN ELSON I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so...
KAREN ELSON I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
KAREN ELSON I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guest...
KAREN ELSON I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of...
KAREN ELSON As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it...
KAREN ELSON I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and ...
KAREN ELSON The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
KAREN ELSON I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
KAREN DUFFY You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
KAREN DUFFY My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf ...
KAREN DUFFY I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jok...
KAREN DUFFY I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'...
KAREN DUFFY I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow a...
KAREN DUFFY In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to ge...
KAREN DUFFY I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-h...
KAREN DUFFY My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my s...
KAREN DUFFY Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.
KAREN DUFFY In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to...
KAREN DUFFY A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn'...
KAREN DUFFY The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not ab...
KAREN DUFFY It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
KAREN DUFFY I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
KAREN DUFFY I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds o...
KAREN DUFFY Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
KAREN DUFFY I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't tak...
KAREN DUFFY I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's...
KAREN DUFFY My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some...
KAREN DUFFY The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual ch...
KAREN DUFFY It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to m...
KAREN DUFFY In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
KAREN DUFFY When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things ...
KAREN BLIXEN If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows ...
KAREN BLIXEN I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
KAREN BLACK I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ...
KAREN BLACK If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
KAREN BASS It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I...
KAREN ARMSTRONG