Kate Millett Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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At the end of the day, whether it was in a little church or Westminster Abbey didn't matter: it was me, as a brother, doing a reading for my sister and her husband at their wedding, and I wanted to do it right.
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I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
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The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things weren’t so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I’d come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn’t know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
