Kathleen Flinn Quotes
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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I never even dreamed of being a chef, and that's fundamental.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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I'm sure that everyone who goes into fashion always dreams of having a perfume, since it completes the brand and exposes it in a different way.
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Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.
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At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
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I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.
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There are so many things you can do with a culinary degree.
