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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I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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My sister would write plays, and I would act in them and perform them for my parents. They were on the comedy side, very much inspired by 'The Amanda Show.'
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
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In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
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And they picketh it up and laideth it in a Ziploc bag
