Caroline Knapp Quotes

I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?'

Caroline Knapp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HealthGreatWalkSelfFeelFat

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WritingThinkKindRoleRecording

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

Jenny Craig

LifeChangeBadBad HabitsHabits

I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

Joel Kinnaman

OperaSoapSoap OperaSwedish

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Joel Madden

DayBrotherGreenStageNirvana

I try to stay aggressive for the most part, dictating, whatever the situation may be. Just trying to do whatever I can to help the team win.

Andrew Benintendi

TeamWinHelpTryingSituationTry

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Michael Heizer

BusinessArtYouScheduleHurry

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

Tom Watson

LifeGoodI AmHappyControlWorry

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Robert De Niro

TruthTruth IsThinkHollywoodClass

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Martin Seligman

LifeGoodHappinessKnowledgePower

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

Molly Ringwald

SuccessPeopleCollaborationYouOut

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

Monica Johnson

LearningMistakesPastRepeated

If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I'll fire up my season 2 DVD of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'

Diablo Cody

CultureBeachFireWantTasteUp

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