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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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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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
