Katherine Webb Quotes
The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.
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I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.
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The majority of my family is Auburn fans, and I grew up watching Auburn football, and that's always who I've cheered for.
