Kate Millett Quotes
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
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I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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I think people are intolerant of artists.
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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
