Kate Zambreno Quotes
She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
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It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
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Even if you have some extra kilos, you don't need to kill yourself for that; you just have to look at yourself as a positive.
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
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I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
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Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
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“It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.”
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My version of makeup is a really intense skin regimen. I just think it's a healthier way to look at beauty.
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The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while the keen blasts and icy winds of reason unceasingly batter at the structure and beat it down.
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She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.
