Katherine Waterston Quotes

The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.

Katherine Waterston

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• Job
• Worry
• Mistake

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• You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

  

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• Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

  

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• I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.

  

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• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

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• My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.

  

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.

  

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• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

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  • War
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• If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

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• I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

  

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• Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

  

  Jack Kornfield
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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

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• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  

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• Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way

  

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• It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor.

  

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• Now I know you should listen to what your body is telling you.

  

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• I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

  

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• Bute coming over here is a big mistake.

  

  Carl Froch
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• The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Real
  • Job
  • Worry