Kathleen Kennedy Quotes
I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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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.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.
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There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
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I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.
