Katherine Waterston Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
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Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.
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If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way.
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I feel that nudity is sort of what we do as actors.
