Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
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Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
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The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
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It's hard to get burned out on doing a TV show.
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People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.
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'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.
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Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
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I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
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The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.
