Katharine Weymouth Quotes
I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.
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We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate.
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My fan mail is what keeps me going.
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I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there as Benvolio in 'Romeo and Juliet.' They sent me some enticing letters - about why didn't I come to New York? - and since it was well below zero that winter in Minneapolis, it didn't take much to get me to leave.
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I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.
