People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
Kate Adie
Related The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always... ART ALEXAKIS A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in th... KURT BRAUNOHLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Highland's always been the top team. Last year we beat Poky and Century, but we weren't where Highla... GRIFFIN MCNABB Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come bac... MARTIN FREEMAN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me wit... RAINI RODRIGUEZ And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she... ESTHER DYSON I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were ju... DAVID THEWLIS There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is ... BRUCE COCKBURN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Two people who I think have the world's most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. ... SOPHIA BUSH What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thin... BRYAN CRANSTON Hiring intentions seem to have gone up a little bit and confidence is edging up. It's right to assum... DARIO PERKINS Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I reme... BILL HADER I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist i... NICK LOVE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep... BARBARA CASTLE I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions t... PAUL GREENGRASS We attack Temple by attacking the zone, finding open guys in the zone and not settling for long jump... CARL ELLIOTT I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening. TAMSIN EGERTON I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, ... DARREN ARONOFSKY I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe... A.J. STYLES Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That n... JIMMY CARTER Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly si... LAURA TROTT How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fig... BRAD PITT Every time I make a record, it's make-or-break time. I hope I always have that mentality - that&... DARIUS RUCKER Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ... PRITISH PATTANAIK There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to g... ED HARRIS There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have alw... DAVE MATTHEWS There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to th... TAMARA MELLON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di... CHAIM POTOK I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a... ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good. MINOR MYERS If there's any success that I've had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. W... CHERI BUSTOS Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers... JOHN ABIZAID I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'... TERRY WOGAN It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there. HALEY REINHART I always love to dress up, but I usually end up in a leather jacket and boots! BELLA HADID Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Amari swung around in her seat to look back and there was indeed a small girl sitting on the boundar... SIAN B. CLAVEN When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in for... RON PAUL He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone SUZY KASSEM These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back h... CAROL ALT The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small exten... MARK HELPRIN There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me ... ANNE CARSON We always seem to have some really good battles with them. (The comeback) was a matter of us getting... DAVE OBERLE It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to ... COLLEEN ATWOOD The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Sam is a truly competitive driver. Yes, I want to beat him and he wants to beat me. But at the end o... HELIO CASTRONEVES History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I should have cut back and gotten into the end zone. I thought I could make it. I should have lifted... JASON AVANT If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, ... ANDREW LUCK The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored cl... SARA BAUME People always complain that superhero movies end with a big fight scene where they're tearing up... SCOTT DERRICKSON I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Re... MAGGIE LAWSON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I ju... BILL BURR Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, ... TIESTO In previous roles, I have thought of my body as 'Betty's body,' and I try not to eat too... BETTY GILPIN Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children... HENNING MANKELL I felt really good. The team is playing really well. That is what the goalie has to do, make the big... DREW MACINTYRE It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team. JERRY WEST We knew they were going to line up in 12 personnel (one back, two tight ends) and run their inside z... BRET BIELEMA I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problem... JAMIE DIMON People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end ... DAVID BALDACCI
More Kate Adie
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman... KATE ADIE I will never retire. KATE ADIE I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. KATE ADIE If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I... KATE ADIE It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they di... KATE ADIE In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the ... KATE ADIE There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any othe... KATE ADIE I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually. KATE ADIE I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of... KATE ADIE I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short. KATE ADIE In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were... KATE ADIE No two wars are identical. KATE ADIE Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has go... KATE ADIE I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantage... KATE ADIE My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified... KATE ADIE On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media con... KATE ADIE I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited,... KATE ADIE It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protecti... KATE ADIE The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good fo... KATE ADIE When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate ... KATE ADIE War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so... KATE ADIE I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I do... KATE ADIE Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds. KATE ADIE Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil... KATE ADIE But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less s... KATE ADIE [There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblin... KATE ADIE Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads ... KATE ADIE Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ââ... KATE ADIE Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a ... KATE ADIE [Maybe she simply cared in a self-protective way.] Doing something on impulse, ... well, it can work... KATE ADIE [The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arri... KATE ADIE The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in langu... KATE ADIE [it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three sibli... KATE ADIE I remember she had these long, lovely nails with red varnish, in the middle of this shitty place we ... KATE ADIE Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them... KATE ADIE The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in langu... KATE ADIE I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama. KATE ADIE Not so much deliberate as, I think, instinctive. There is a right time to go looking. Some do it whe... KATE ADIE Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate it was a ... KATE ADIE The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in langu... KATE ADIE I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fict... KATE ADIE 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