Kim Edwards Quotes
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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I don't like exercising; I'll be honest with you.
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During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
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I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
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As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.
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'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
