Katy Manning Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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I like things that involve skill and I love anything that's a bit of a challenge.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.
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Life doesn't get easier but it does get funnier.
