Kate Christensen Quotes

Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.

Kate Christensen

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ReadingStoryThinkBagYouOut

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

Joe Orton

GoodPeopleBadGoKindTaste

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

Joel Siegel

LifeGoodSomeoneWantWhyTwo

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

John Frusciante

MusicNowWholeChangedApproach

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

Jeff Kinney

ChildrenChildhoodMeWritingBook

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Sugar Ray Leonard

GreatGoldWinAccomplishmentYou

I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.

Robert Dallek

WorldBelieveThinkSomeoneWant

Art is competitive.

Robert Duvall

ArtCompetitive

Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.

Ronda Rousey

SpeakDoingUnderstandAwkwardWell

When I was born, the man in the sky pointed to me and said, 'That's the guy.'

Romario

SkyManMeBornSaidGuy

I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.

Michael Stuhlbarg

TimeBestStepBridgeYouFind

I know how good I am, and I know where I can go if I'm in the right mindset and respecting my opponent.

Luke Rockhold

GoodI AmMindsetI CanGoKnow

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Douglas Wilson

GuiltyPleasureGuilty PleasureThing

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