Katherine McNamara Quotes
Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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I'm not ready to die yet. I have, like, 40 years left that I have to make up for all of the trouble I caused in my first 50 years.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
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Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
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The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.
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Girl Up gives girls an opportunity and gives them a platform and starting point through which they can take it and run with it and help give girls the opportunity to have the freedom, independence and the ability to get an education.
