Kate Christensen Quotes
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?Kate Christensen
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
Nate Parker -
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
Zoe Kazan -
A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
Jack Falahee -
My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
Eddy Cue -
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
Orlando Bloom -
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
Ed Harris
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
Floyd Skloot -
We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
Vanna Bonta -
I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
Adam DeVine -
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
Ted Sarandos -
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
Dana Schutz
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
Gary Numan -
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
Harry Browne -
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin -
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
Viggo Mortensen -
All of my main characters have been under 30.
Tamra Davis
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
Kat Graham -
I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.
Penelope Cruz -
It's true that I'm always happy to walk away.
Ana Patricia Botin -
I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.
Emilie Autumn Liddell -
Isn't television glamourous?
Adam Savage -
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
Kate Christensen