Katherine McNamara Quotes
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Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
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You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
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I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
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I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
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I'm a chocolate addict.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Each year, I pick something new to learn. One year, it was learning how to knit, and I got 'The Sweethearts' Knitting Club' out of the experience. Another year, it was to volunteer at the local domestic abuse shelter, and I ended up volunteering there for three years.
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When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
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Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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When I'm not on set, I'm in the studio.
