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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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
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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.
