Kathryn Stockett Quotes

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

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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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • First
  • China

• 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.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• 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.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • Women
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• 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.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Financial
  • Economics

• In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Running
  • Air
  • Service

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• 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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• 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.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• 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.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • May
  • Society
  • Simple

• Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Adventure
  • Package

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• I do think image is important in a band, because when I go see a show, I want to see a show; I don't want to just listen to the music.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Important
  • Band
  • Image

• I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I am for America because America is for the common people.

  

  William McKinley
  • People
  • America
  • Common

• I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn't until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Music
  • School
  • Team

• I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • People
  • Wish