Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes
I can watch endless humans get killed, but if I see a movie and they kill a dog, I practically want to walk out.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.
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It's high school, man. They compare it to prison in the movie.
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I can watch endless humans get killed, but if I see a movie and they kill a dog, I practically want to walk out.
