Katharine Isabelle Quotes
I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects. I think about a song like Free's 'All Right Now,' which I'm often asked about. It's that sort of song.
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Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.
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I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
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I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.
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My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
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I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.
