Kathryn Minshew Quotes
Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else.
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Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.