Kathy Bates Quotes
The problem I have these days is that women are often cast in a role - as a police officer, for example - and then are invariably perceived by the other characters as succeeding in a man's job, as if they're doing it in spite of being women.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
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Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.
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I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
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The problem I have these days is that women are often cast in a role - as a police officer, for example - and then are invariably perceived by the other characters as succeeding in a man's job, as if they're doing it in spite of being women.
