Katha Pollitt Quotes
A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.
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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
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When I used to work in television, a tip was rather than looking down the barrel of the camera and imagine people watching, which is terrifying, imagine your most discerning friend observing you, and imagine you're just talking to them.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
