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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When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
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When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.
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What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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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.
