Kate Christensen Quotes
Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.Kate Christensen
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
Harold Bloom -
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
Carly Fiorina -
People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
Ian McShane -
I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
Laura Dern -
I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
Taron Egerton -
When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
Vicky McClure
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
Yolandi Visser -
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
Queen Latifah -
The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
Zooey Deschanel -
People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.
Gayle Forman -
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
Maeve Binchy
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck -
I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
Finn Jones -
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson -
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
Sally Kellerman -
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
Bear Grylls -
A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I find really difficult. I don't really like being in front of a camera - even though it is my job and I must act like I do.
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The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
Gail Collins -
I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
Kate Christensen