Katherine Waterston Quotes
I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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I love evening tuberoses. My mother used to have tuberoses in her garden, and in the summers in Sacramento, it would get really hot and then cool down in the evenings. You'd walk up the driveway, and it made it feel like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I was put here to sing.
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I have to force myself to remember that if I can't do my job, people's stories won't get told, and that helps me to focus on the task at hand.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.
