Caroline Knapp Quotes

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

Caroline Knapp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 8, 1959 - June 3, 2002

Topics

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You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

John Oliver

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I remember when I was watching 'Lost,' which I loved. I didn't know what was going on, but I still loved it.

Tony Hale

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Put me in with anyone in the top 10, and I win.

Robert Whittaker

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It is all down to 'The Two Ronnies.' Those years with Ronnie Barker were the spine of my career.

Ronnie Corbett

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Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

Mary Karr

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The military tribunals currently underway at Guantanamo Bay create a clear legal process, as affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, for adjudicating the cases of these terrorists, when possible. Those efforts would be severely undercut by moving the detainees to the United States.

Mike Pompeo

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Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

Mike Huckabee

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Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

Mo Ibrahim

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I'd be honored to be in the same sentence as Tom Hardy. I've been a twin since the day I was born - fraternal, but we look a lot alike - so I've already been mixed up with another man my entire life.

Logan Marshall-Green

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You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.

Josephine de La Baume

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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Desmond Tutu

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