Kate Christensen Quotes

The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

Kate Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ArtLookingInspirationMuseLeave

My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.

Jerry Della Femina

MorningStartHouseSundayMeat

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

Mercedes McCambridge

HateYearsCannotThanSustain

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'

Stephen Merchant

FunnyHeroSmartMeChanceThink

I think prayerful meditation, being still in a space, being still with God, I don't do that enough. It's crazy, because when I do do it, I always walk away from it going, 'Why the hell am I not doing that more?'

Tony Hale

GodWalkSpaceCrazyThinkHell

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

Robert Falcon Scott

WorkDogBusinessFaceDrivingMost

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

Mick Rock

TodayAliveHardMiracleLivedPop

Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.

Dougray Scott

CountryImportantShapingIncredibly

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

Demi Moore

Better PersonOpportunitiesBetter

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

Dorothea Dix

MenHappyThoughtFriendsTrue

I could play a lot of things. And it's hard for people and logically hard and understandably hard for people to think of me for certain roles.

Martin Landau

PeopleMeThinkPlayHardThings

We are born into a particular place and time with a particular set of gifts and limitations. The challenge isn't to pluck the best career out of the air, but to learn yourself from the inside out: to know your gifts and accept your limitations and shape your life accordingly.

Justine Musk

LifeTimeChallengeBestYourself

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

Frederick Pollock

TogetherPromisesStandYouWhyTwo

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