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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'


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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