Kristin Gore Quotes
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When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when I went to college. I just had a panic button in my dorm room, so if I pressed that, they'd be there within 2 or 3 minutes.
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I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.
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I'm just grateful that my parents still love each other.
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When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me.
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I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.
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I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic.
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'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.
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I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.
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I can go days without meaningful human interaction.
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I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.
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In my free time, I'd written 'Sammy's Hill' - it had started out as a play. I just did it for myself.
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My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.
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Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then.
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I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.
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There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.
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The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.
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I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.
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The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.
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I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.
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In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.
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Both of my parents have great senses of humor.
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I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.
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I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
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Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.