Katherine Boo Quotes
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
Quotes to Explore
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
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I think that when you use the word 'plus-size,' you're putting all these women in a category: 'You don't eat well.' 'You don't work out.' 'You could care less about your body.' 'You're insecure.' 'You have no confidence.'
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I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.
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It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
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You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?
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When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
