Katharine Viner Quotes
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.
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Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.
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You have to pretend that you're not bothered by your record leaked early. So that's the tack that I'm taking. It's like if you're working in a store and people come and openly shoplift from you, and you're not allowed to say anything about it. Instead, you're supposed to smile and go, "Hope you enjoy that!" I'm not going to complain about it, I don't get to make the rules. It's just really funny how that works.
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People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.
