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Kate Christensen Quotes

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

Kate Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Nature Home Myself People Days

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

Jeremy Lin

Me Next Everyone Playing Started

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

John Frankenheimer

Life Dinner My Life Someone Want

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

John Lahr

Good Time Me Theatre Performance Go

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

Michael Ealy

Feel Doing You Actor Always Years

It's not OK to fail. It's that things can fail and absolutely will go wrong - just keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.

Tosca Musk

Trying Wrong Go Will Things Fail

We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

Dean Devlin

Love Art Think Trying You Movies

I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.

Deborah Eisenberg

Thought Trying Away Layers Strip

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

Chet Faker

Say Sound Musically Everything Hours

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

Peter Gould

Myself Think Person More Anything

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

Richard Holbrooke

Democracy Imperfect Even Surprised

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

Marilyn vos Savant

Heart You Know The Right Thing Right

I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.

Mark Zupan

Mind Stronger Being Taller