Kate Zambreno Quotes
My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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In the not-for-profit world, I never felt that being female was an impediment. I was, however, given my break into commercial theatre by a female producer, Judy Craymer, and women - in particular, Donna Langley, president of production at Universal - were crucial in giving 'Mamma Mia' a home in Hollywood.
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My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.
