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Caroline Knapp Quotes

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, 'Oh, no - not pictures.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Friend Reach You Pictures New Say

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

Sports Up Competitive Hardest Very

Resting for me is fitness training.

Fitness Training Me Resting

When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.

Life Good Live Character Me Start

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

John Crowe Ransom

Art Religion Logic Quiet Possible

The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.

Doing Enjoy Matter Balls Hard Air

The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing.

Job World Feel Try See Changing

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

Faith Politics I Am Me Values Never

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

Art People Me Laugh You Television

I try to use the landline whenever I can. We cannot do without the mobile phones, but we don't need to use them indiscriminately. We are overusing it; we are misusing it.

I Can Try Phones Need Without Use

I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

Meant To Be See I See Regrets Things

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Business Money You Down Never Keep

For me, I was never really obsessed with Luke Cage. My obsession was Wolverine.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Me Never Obsession Cage Wolverine

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