Katy Jurado Quotes
I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
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I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.
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If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.
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Love is about letting go of the fears that stand in front of our hearts.
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It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.
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I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.
