Kate Clinton Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
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I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.
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Let the president answer a higher anarchy. Strap him with an AK-47, let him go, fight his own war. Let him impress daddy that way. No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil.
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If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.
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The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves experts on children's literature. But I suspected that kids like to look closely at things and figure out what makes them go.
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And they picketh it up and laideth it in a Ziploc bag
