Kate Clinton Quotes
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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The word 'art' does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
