Kathleen McGowan Quotes
I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.
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I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
