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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While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.
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The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. On the state of British politics.
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Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
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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.
