Kathryn Stockett Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I adore Copenhagen, where I live, but I'm really drawn to New York.
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I think losing your mother at such a young age does end up shaping your life massively. Of course it does, and now I find myself trying to be there and give advice to other people who are in similar positions.
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There's a critical need to attract the best people in the world.
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As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.
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I have some role models. In Brazil, they are mostly writers. A writer named Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto is my favorite. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is also a very important figure for me.
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I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
