Katherine McNamara Quotes
A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we're going to fight demons, but it's all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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I went with a pixie cut when my daughter was really young. It was easy - I mean, it was really easy. But I missed my long hair. Especially after a long winter, all I want is sexy summer hair.
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But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
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I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
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A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we're going to fight demons, but it's all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.
