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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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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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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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.
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Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.
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I can't tell people what flag to fly.
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Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?
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More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
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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.
