In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
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JOHN CORBETT In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
JOHN THORN Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
DICK DALE I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died las...
STEPHEN STILLS Tom would bring in songs, Mike would engineer, and we recorded about 30 songs.
BENMONT TENCH In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from ...
PATSY CLINE In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live per...
IAN ANDERSON I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentalit...
TYGA In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door in...
M.I.A. I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years,
ELAINE PAIGE I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.
ELAINE PAIGE I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew w...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful an...
ZOE TAPPER I didn't feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didn't think about it....
GRETCHEN WILSON I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it loo...
KATE REARDON Brood production in Indiana during summer 2005 was the lowest recorded in 13 years, and was in notab...
STEVE BACKS My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better. SARRA MANNING In addition to my (counseling) practice, I've had a lengthy career in music. Years ago, I sang count...
LINDA PALERMO So, in the course of events, I had an opportunity to come in contact with Colin Matthews, through th...
PHIL LESH We know it was 29-29, and almost everyone in the gym knew it. I think the fact they took a basket aw...
CLIFF THOMPSON We haven't had one built here in 29 years. This is simply a supply-and-demand issue.
ANITA MANGELS Well, I was amazed, really. I mean, only because of the other company. I was quite amazed.
DAVID HOCKNEY She's very comfortable with her sexuality. She doesn't have the Puritan approach that Kate had. Well...
DON BELLISARIO By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no id...
RACHEL HUNTER It's been about 25 years since I did a solo project. I've been working on the new album for the past...
MIKE LOVE My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA The night before was the coldest weather recorded in May for 90 years.
GRAHAM GOUGH One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that compe...
EDWIN MOSES I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
OLIVIA D'ABO When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed ...
FRANK BUTLER I was born here and I was raised here in Los Angeles. And when I was five years old, my best friends...
TROIAN BELLISARIO I reckon I had 30 Spider-Man costumes over the years since I was a little baby. I had Spider-Man bed...
TOM HOLLAND If I go back to when I was 18 years old, here was this group writing songs and playing rock 'n' roll...
CURTIS REMINGTON In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children sti...
HERB TRIMPE I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. Tha...
MADDIE ZIEGLER I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the ...
MICHAEL BOLTON I was in Gulfport and Long Beach on Tuesday and was amazed at how much damage was done, ... But I wa...
DAVID HAMILTON I was amazed how clean it was.
BYRON SR I was amazed how clean it was.
BYRON HUGHES SR It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a...
TANYA TUCKER My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and...
LISA LOEB My overnight success was really 15 years in the making, ... Id been writing songs since I was 6 and ...
LISA LOEB When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the ...
TROIAN BELLISARIO I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters ...
JERRY REED I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 an...
CHELSEA CLINTON We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recor...
JUDY COLLINS And lo and behold, people were amazed: Washington was amazed. The country was amazed. And I was amaz...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded ...
ADAM GOLDBERG That wasn't Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old," Kate said.
I told you, they ...
JULIE JAMES I was amazed at how soft it was. I know they haven't had a lot of rain, so they put some water on it...
D.A. WEIBRING I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that...
PETER FALK There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital...
DAVE GIBBONS I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
BURT BACHARACH The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of dif...
FLORENCE WELCH After he recorded it, I had to stop singing it.
DAVE VAN RONK The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I ha...
FRANK OCEAN I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON I had heard about this place in the past, and you knew it was like that. But, yeah, it has amazed me...
BRET CALHOUN As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radi...
MOHIT CHAUHAN Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different y...
BECK I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants a...
BJORN BORG If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it...
NEIL DIAMOND When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over m...
GLORIA ESTEFAN Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I...
RODNEY KING Steve didn't use me the way I wanted to be used, ... I'm 29 years old and I play a certain position....
JOVAN KIROVSKI I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, maki...
TOM LEHRER When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: ...
HAROLD E. VARMUS I hadn't picked up my bass in over 20 years. I was like 'You've got to be kidding?' but we did it an...
GERRY BISHOP I had some songs in that I had wrote, you know, priceless to me.
DARREN BENITEZ I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insuranc...
ALAN FURST I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I...
ROB PORTMAN Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, to...
WANDA JACKSON Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever woul...
COLE SWINDELL I got my ears pierced when I was 12. I looked up to my older cousin, and he had earrings. Will Smith...
SHAMEIK MOORE It was a wonderful turnout. I was amazed and pleased.
DONNA RUOKONEN When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made th...
ALOE BLACC I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank S...
PIA ZADORA If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate M...
DAWN FRENCH There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
LAYNE STALEY The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered ...
SCOTT ANDERSON We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
EDGAR WINTER I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I had a great career with BASS, but they need to change some of their rules. I just can't compete in...
LARRY NIXON I've been doing this for 45 years and I'm still amazed at what I find out.
CARLTON FUNN I'm amazed at the cost. I had my eyes opened real fast.
LARRY STEACH After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I marri...
AGNETHA FALTSKOG I was totally amazed she was able to swim the river.
DEL MORRIS When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never se...
FLORENCE HENDERSON There was a moment when I was watching Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in 'Badboys' that I fe...
RUSSELL SIMMONS There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at d...
EDGAR WINTER I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin...
DAVID BOWIE I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha...
CHRIS ISAAK If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you liv...
KEVIN DEYOUNG One thing I've realized about new places is that they're like jeans. Sure, they might fit in, but th...
ROBYN SCHNEIDER My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.
LES DAWSON I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that....
JOHN LYDON I don't separate my work with the band from this solo project-I'm sure the group could have recorded...
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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
KATE SMITH If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But th...
KATE SMITH It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
KATE SMITH It's up to the audience. It always has been.
KATE SMITH Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middl...
KATE SMITH Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so lab...
KATE SMITH An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or ot...
KATE SMITH Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form o...
KATE SMITH I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at b...
KATE SMITH I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.
KATE SMITH I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would ta...
KATE SMITH I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached the...
KATE SMITH I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what....
KATE SMITH It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can ...
KATE SMITH In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances t...
KATE SMITH I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
KATE SMITH Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is...
KATE SMITH This nation loves singing and loves acting.
KATE SMITH Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had s...
KATE SMITH Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
KATE SMITH My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
KATE SMITH Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and famil...
KATE SMITH There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
KATE SMITH Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensure...
KATE SMITH Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much foo...
KATE SMITH As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explo...
KATE SMITH I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
KATE SMITH I would awaken, be awakened with this horrible heat — this internal heat.
KATE SMITH One of us would probably say something because that's the kind of place we are.
KATE SMITH Celebrating Differences. You slide your finger down to your chest like your birthday ice cream is dr...
KATE SMITH It's nice to see that companies are aware of my issues and try to meet my needs.
KATE SMITH If the intense night sweat is hitting where the material is, it does draw the moisture away.
KATE SMITH I would awaken, be awakened with this horrible heat this internal heat.
KATE SMITH I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without tr...
KATE SMITH I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dyin...
KATE SMITH Confusion is a continuous fight with self-knowledge, prejudice and insecurity.
KATE I have an insane calling to be where i'm not, and a screaming urge to get out of here. There's no ro...
KATE That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b...
KATE If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual...
KATE Amazing how you can fake you're way through the day, by looking at the clock, and work untill it's t...
KATE The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together!
KATE More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song.
It shouldn't be this hard, and it s...
KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting.
KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
But the thou...
KATE Why do people get back in the box ?,
when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
And even though ...
KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis...
KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May...
KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a...
KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes...
KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things.
But whe...
KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ...
KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think....
KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone...
KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti...
KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther...
KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep.
KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few..
KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ...
KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last...
KATE I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun,
but it looks like I have to settle for less again.
KATE You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ...
KATE If water would be running up,
would it wash away the spots,
underneath the places, where we usually ...
KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t...
KATE Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.
LAUREN KATE With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and...
KATE FORSYTH I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like...
KATE MOSS Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ...
KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi...
KATE ATKINSON So the storm passed and every one was happy.
KATE CHOPIN Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st...
KATE WINSLET Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu...
KATE WINSLET Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils tha...
KATE WINSLET I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
KATE WINSLET I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'
KATE WINSLET Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
KATE WINSLET I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's...
KATE WINSLET Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother...
KATE WINSLET I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and d...
KATE WINSLET I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to...
KATE WINSLET Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
KATE WINSLET Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
KATE WINSLET Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to...
KATE WINSLET You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
KATE WINSLET What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life...
KATE WINSLET I do have impossibly high standards.
KATE WINSLET Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all ...
KATE WINSLET Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
KATE WINSLET It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
KATE WINSLET The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho...
KATE WILLIAMS People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh...
KATE WILLIAMS When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box...
KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think...
KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'...
KATE WILLIAMS Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the...
KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women...
KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri...
KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history...
KATE WILLIAMS I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his...
KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth...
KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t...
KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa...
KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha...
KATE WILLIAMS Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a...
KATE WILLIAMS Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow...
KATE WILLIAMS I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
KATE WILLIAMS The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ...
KATE WILLIAMS I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016...
KATE WILLIAMS Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m...
KATE WILLIAMS Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
KATE WALSH For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ...
KATE WALSH Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ...
KATE WALSH I struggle with control.
KATE WALSH I loved campaigning for Obama.
KATE WALSH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH I still like to make crank calls.
KATE WALSH I would definitely love to be a parent.
KATE WALSH No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g...
KATE WALSH There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
KATE WALSH I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
KATE WALSH I've done every diet there is.
KATE WALSH Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
KATE WALSH I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
KATE WALSH You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
KATE WALSH I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc...
KATE WALSH I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
KATE WALSH I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
KATE WALSH I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
KATE WALSH People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from...
KATE WALSH I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
KATE WALSH I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
KATE WALSH I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor...
KATE WALSH I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
KATE WALSH I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of...
KATE VOEGELE I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations....
KATE VOEGELE I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb...
KATE VOEGELE I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
KATE VOEGELE My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song...
KATE VOEGELE More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i...
KATE VOEGELE I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ...
KATE VOEGELE Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences ...
KATE VOEGELE I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.
KATE DICAMILLO I hate to cook and love to eat.
KATE DICAMILLO I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.
KATE DICAMILLO I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
KATE DICAMILLO I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay...
KATE DICAMILLO I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I w...
KATE DICAMILLO I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
KATE DICAMILLO I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am s...
KATE DICAMILLO I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.
KATE DICAMILLO I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
KATE DICAMILLO Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense ...
KATE DICAMILLO Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ...
KATE DICAMILLO It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for ch...
KATE DICAMILLO I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
KATE DICAMILLO My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f...
KATE DICAMILLO I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'...
KATE DICAMILLO Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
KATE DICAMILLO We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele...
KATE CLINTON They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee...
KATE CLINTON My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, spo...
KATE CLINTON Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefo...
KATE CLINTON I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
KATE CLINTON I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it...
KATE CLINTON What goes for sex goes double for politics.
KATE CLINTON We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
KATE CLINTON I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want...
KATE CLINTON I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i...
KATE CLINTON As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r...
KATE CLINTON Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le...
KATE CLINTON When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
KATE CLINTON I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ...
KATE CLINTON A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,...
KATE CLINTON Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
KATE CLINTON I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sund...
KATE CLINTON I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
KATE CHRISTENSEN I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
KATE CHRISTENSEN On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
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