Caroline Knapp Quotes

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'

Caroline Knapp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Anna Friel

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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

John Polanyi

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You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

Steven Seagal

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The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

Tris Speaker

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By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Marya Mannes

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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.

Clark Gregg

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I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

Brie Larson

PeopleSolitudeEnjoyPhoneToo Much

All the parts I've enjoyed playing the most I didn't know about until they appeared, or it was something I read and fell in love with.

Alicia Vikander

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The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.

Titus Flavius Vespasian

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After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

Tom Brady

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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

Ringo Starr

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