Katori Hall Quotes
In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.
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Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?
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Oh, I've been ridiculously lucky to work for, I'd say, five of the greatest directors of all time... and a lot of other great people, too.
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I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.
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In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
