Katharine Ross Quotes
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.
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There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.
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I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
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If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we've made to our health care system and that covers as many people at less cost, I will publicly support it.
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As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
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Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.
