Katherine Waterston Quotes
I think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it's not so different. You're still pursuing good work. You still panic that you're doing it all wrong.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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I like to travel by myself.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
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As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody - family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers - giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I'm the mouthpiece for the masses.
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More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.
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Chat with Jerry Cantrell at ESPN.com (November 29, 2011).
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I think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it's not so different. You're still pursuing good work. You still panic that you're doing it all wrong.
