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Kate Christensen Quotes

On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they're also allowed to take candy from strangers - the scariest thing of all.

Kate Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 22, 1962

Topics

Night Strangers Candy Take Get Kids

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

Andrew Luck

Football Like Most About Thing

We tend to forget that in those days before the Internet and HBO and Imax and 3-D cinema, opera was the thing. Opera and theatre. If you were a man of the world and you mingled among the happy few, you would be at the opera.

Robert Lepage

Man Happy Theatre World Internet

'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.

Jeff Buckley

Life Fear Faith Time Prayer Death

I think irony precludes really feeling deeply about anything. I just didn't want to be that kind of writer who found nothing that wasn't worth indictment. I admire Willa Cather so much because she was unafraid to have big feelings and put them on the page. I just want to be able to believe in things.

Tony Earley

Believe Think Worth Feeling Feelings

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

Roger Bannister

Racing America Country Introduction

I've always been a gypsy.

Robin Leach

Always Gypsy Been

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

Judy Gold

Live Myself True

When you're hot, you stride confidently down the street, extending your form to hail a taxi to take you from place to place. My body is designed for squeezing into packed subway cars and apologizing to those whose feet I clumsily step on.

Josh Gondelman

Step Feet You Body Down Place

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

Anne Enright

Character You Right Sense Get Just

From the leg lamp to Ralphie's tongue getting stuck on a frozen pole to that BB-gun incident, 'A Christmas Story' has left its mark on all our brains, so much so that it sometimes feels like this story is our own.

Phoebe Robinson

Story Tongue Sometimes Christmas Own

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Shane Warne

Simple Me Cricket Game Play Go

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

Rene Girard

Great Advertising Believe Distance