Kathryn Stockett Quotes
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
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I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.
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When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
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I was on Twitter right in the first couple months that it was out.
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An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart.
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Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.
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I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.
