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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'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.
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The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.
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I told our guys it's very important for us to go home this winter and not give anybody the ability to call us losers again. They've been called that for 12 straight years.
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything-gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness-rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.
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When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
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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.
