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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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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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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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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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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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy: a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept Or one could weep because another wept.
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I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.
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And they picketh it up and laideth it in a Ziploc bag
