Kathryn Minshew Quotes

My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.

Kathryn Minshew

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Exploring
  • Dropping

• There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Think
  • You

• When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • You
  • Decision
  • Forgive

• If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Energy

• There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Problem
  • Where

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Importance

• There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• Curvy is something to be proud of.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Curvy

• There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• I encourage interoffice romance.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.

  

  Aron Ralston
  • Pretty
  • Rock

• I am a drinker with writing problems.

  

  Brendan Behan
  • Writing

• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  

  John Sununu
  • Time
  • Business
  • Small

• My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Trying