Kathryn Stockett Quotes
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I think I need security.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
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The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
