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Kate Christensen Quotes

'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.

Kate Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Food Blue Special First Plate

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

Life Me Target Looks Go Kid

It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.

Me Limits Better I Can Trouble Get

I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

Together Talent People Find Person

I do think that maybe, even subconsciously, a lot of parents in the West are wondering, have we gone too far in the direction of coddling and protecting - you know, you see kids, sometimes that seem very rude and disrespectful. And the more important thing is they don't seem that happy.

Happy Parents Direction Think You

When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.

Job Think Better You Physics Acting

I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a lieutenant 23 years earlier, and I remembered how his first child, Molly, had been born while Charlie was deployed to the first Gulf War.

Stanley A. McChrystal

War Child Born First Child First

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Tradition Hobby Nice Become Like

It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

Insecurity End Serious Build Up

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

Fear Business Insecurity Insanity

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

Jonathan Tropper

Day Job Tomorrow Believe Down Tell

My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.

January American Distance Top Out

That's one of the things I loved about Pride: the first round was ten minutes.

Demetrious Johnson

Pride Loved First Things Minutes

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