Kathryn Minshew Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.
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Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
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I had been in Chicago for 22 years, and my wife and I didn't want to see another Chicago winter. Its a wonderful town but the winters are brutal. My wife and I are both east coast people and we wanted to live someplace a little bit warmer but didn't want to live way down south. So Delaware seemed like a good compromise.
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I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.
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Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.
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One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
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When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it.
