Kate Christensen Quotes
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
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In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
