Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

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• There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Wonder

• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • London
  • University
  • Received

• From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Truth

• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Own
  • Too Much
  • Admit

• I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Funny
  • Optimist
  • Carries

• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Human
  • Cat
  • Lion

• I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Myself
  • Talking
  • Dinner

• The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Want
  • Society

• Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Exchange
  • Mediums

• I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • See
  • Hard
  • Discouraged

• It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Different
  • Think
  • Kind

• I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Time
  • Day
  • Understanding

• The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Best
  • Agency
  • Morale

• A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. But I have always wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Knowledge
  • Thoughts

• My thighs have been involved in many accidents,And now I can't get insured,And I don't need to be lured by you.My cunt is built like a wound that won't heal,And now you don't have to askBecause you know how I feel.

  

  Ani DiFranco

• The past, he said. The past is too much with me. And the past has made me useless. I have too much to remember-so much to remember that it becomes more important than the things there are to do. I’m living in the past and that is no way to live.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Important
  • Live
  • Remember

• I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Business
  • Song
  • Singing

• I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

  

  David Chase
  • Done

• If things don't work out with one person, there's many other people to replace you with online.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People
  • Work

• If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.

  

  John Fleming
  • Country

• Should guilty seek asylum here,Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin. Should a sinner make his way to this mansion, All his past sins are to be washed away. The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs; And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes. In this world this edifice Taj Mahal has been made; To display thereby the creator's glory.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • World
  • Free
  • Past

• Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

  

  John Dos Passos
  • Men
  • Humanity
  • March

• I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Mind

• Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

  

  Kristin Bauer van Straten