Katharine Ross Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Avian and pandemic influenza are posing a greater challenge to the world than any previous emerging infectious diseases.
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Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
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I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
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I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.
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You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.
