Kathleen Anne Brien (Katy B) Quotes
When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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My best friend is my husband.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
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Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go!
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There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.
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I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.
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Whenever I've had a wig fall off, I've just played it off like I meant it to happen. Just keep a good sense of humor about it.
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When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.
