Katherine Waterston Quotes
I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
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When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
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I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
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So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
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'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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It's a violation of federal law for an officer or an employee of the United States government to make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding the amount we've appropriated.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.
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I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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Language is often changed by writers. We speak English today because Chaucer chose to write in the language of the common people, rather than the Latin or French used by those who were educated. James Joyce had an almost equally profound effect on language when he wrote about the inner self, rather than the outer self.
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Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
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The challenge is shifting our appreciation: being willing to give up some of dad’s money for more of dad’s love. And, in the process, altering the psyche that makes him lovable.
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It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
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Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.
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The thing is, I grew up in L.A., so I had this unique opportunity to live in both communist Russia and see that life, and then move to America as a young girl and experience a completely different life.
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Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
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But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.
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I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.
