Katharine Ross Quotes
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
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Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
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I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
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I hate horror movies, with a passion.
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But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.
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As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.
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If you talk about Lindsay Lohan for four or five days a week, you really can't bear to talk about her on the weekends.
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It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, and everyone - business, government, and nonprofits - needs to play a role.
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For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like 'Golden Child' - shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you'll find at a bigger theatre.
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When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.
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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.
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I have nothing against crossing over, but I don't need to change to cross over.
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It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.
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Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!
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I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.
