Katherine Waterston Quotes
I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
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If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.
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I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
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My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.
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Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.
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I didn't feel a specific pressure to prove myself because I had an actor in the family. I didn't feel that pressure to fill some big shoes or anything.
