Kelly Clarkson Quotes
I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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When you wear the costumes in a period drama, you already feel like a different person - the clothes make you stand differently, change your posture, the way you walk. You really have to have stamina - you have two hours in hair and makeup, and then another hour to remove all that.
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I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.
