Caroline Knapp Quotes
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
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I think bravery is when you're willing to really put yourself on the line and maybe lose out, financially - and be able to say exactly what motivates you and what inspires you and what you find completely unacceptable in humanity and in culture.
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Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
