Kate Clinton Quotes
I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
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We have enough of a critical mass reach where it economically makes sense to run a national broadcast campaign.
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The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.
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My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
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I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
