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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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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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I'm a repair chick.
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There is no actual need to tighten voter ID rules: there have been extraordinarily few instances of people committing fraud at the polls.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
