Katherine McNamara Quotes
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?
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I used to wonder because I never thought I looked like either of my parents, but now I think I look like a conglomeration.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.
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When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.
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Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
