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Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

Show-running is a very difficult job that includes so many responsibilities; I'm working with the actors, working with directors, writing, making decisions like, 'What fabric is that sofa gonna be?'

Courtney A. Kemp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 4, 1977

Topics

Job Writing Decisions Difficult Sofa

Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

Jim Goldberg

Work Questions Asking Questions Kind

For the most part, my house stays the same over the years. I tend to design with pieces that feel timeless to me, so I'm not constantly rearranging my home.

Joanna Gaines

Home Me Design Feel House Over

To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can pull from a lot of resources and put them into my work and just have as much information as possible.

Joanna Going

Work Me Information I Can Possible

If I've got a problem with one of my clients that needs to get solved, guess what I'm going to do? I'm going to call them up, and I'm going to say, 'Hey, here's what's going on. This is the situation. This thing went sideways. I didn't expect it. Now it's going to take me some more time to get you what you need.' But I'm going to do that upfront.

Jocko Willink

Time Me Problem You Situation Say

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

Jean Shepherd

Moment Culture American Pop Culture

When I was younger, I was like, 'I want to be on Playboy.' My mum was a Playmate.

Sophie Monk

Want Like Younger Playboy Mum

When we first started playing shows, we were all 17. Everybody started somewhere. There were guys throwing shows in condemned houses and backyards just for the love of music and for the love of what bands were standing for.

Sonny Sandoval

Love Music First Standing Playing

I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket.

Louise Post

Birthday Day New York City Me You

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

Louis L'Amour

Character Me Start Surprise Know

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

Louis XIV

King Lose Temper Should Were Ah

I've begun to realize, as I'm getting older, that I was taught to go for a certain kind of stillness to get things done. I missed that in my life. I loved my grandmother's property, out in South Georgia right above the Florida line, so I just thought I'd find some property where I could feel that again.

Lizz Wright

Life Getting Older Thought Loved

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Johnny Mathis

Morning Night Voice Think Care Same