Kate Christensen Quotes
I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
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Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.
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I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
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Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.
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I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
