Katherine Johnson Quotes
Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
Quotes to Explore
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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Here sits the UnicornIn captivity,Yet free.
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If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people know about me." Because I think professionally, it's an easier road. That would be something I would tell a young actor. But it's cool.
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The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
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While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.
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Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.
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Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
