Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Kate Douglas Wiggin

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• I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.

  

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• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  

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• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

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• If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

  

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• I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

  

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• So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

  

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• They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

  

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• I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.

  

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• The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

  

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• I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

  

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• When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.

  

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• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

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• I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.

  

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• The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

  

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• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  

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• I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

  

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• In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

  

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• A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.

  

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• I feel like everything I wear is a favorite thing. I wouldn't wear something if I didn't love it, and I wouldn't just wear something because someone put me in it.

  

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• The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

  

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• I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

  

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• Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

  

  Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • People
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