Kate Brown Quotes
Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I was rubbish at school.
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
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The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
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I've actually never played a time traveler, for all the time travelling movies I've done.
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Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.
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I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn't my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.
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Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
