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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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.
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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.