Kathryn Stockett Quotes
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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If you have to forecast, forecast often.
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What makes an officer's job all the more difficult, dangerous, and demanding is that it rests on upholding that sacred trust with citizens that he or she serves. Nevertheless, I ask every officer in Chicago: reflect on your work, your training, your experience and - to be honest - about the fears and frustrations you bring to that job.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
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It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.
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I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
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This experimentation is the custom-and properly so-in those sciences where mathematical demonstrations are applied to natural phenomena, as is seen in the case of perspective, astronomy, mechanics, music, and others where the principles, once established by well-chosen experiments, become the foundations of the entire superstructure.
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Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.
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The contentious issue of pay parity between male and female actors is easily resolvable if a number of big actresses decide to put their foot down. But we have to also consider the factors of time and labour. If a female actor has shot only for 40 days and the male actor for 200 days, she cannot expect to be paid the same amount.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.
