Katharine McPhee Quotes
I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
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When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.
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We had a street gang that was very vivid - very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python. We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet - with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.
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Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
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The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
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I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.
