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 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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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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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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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents.
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Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.
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It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
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In Arthurian battle the trick for us was to figure out how to give it the scale that the movie deserved and fitted in a financial box that was necessary. We made the battle quite a bit bigger than originally intended, just because we felt that being part of the opening sequence of the movie we really needed to grab the audience's attention.
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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.
