Kate Zambreno Quotes
I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
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I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.
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Certain struggles never end.
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I'm very humble.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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I have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.
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The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.
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I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.
