Kathy Bates Quotes

The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.

Kathy Bates

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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

Edmund White
- Life
- Time
- Different
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

Gail Collins
- Up
- Writing
- Words
Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.

Ted Deutch
- People
- Work
- Country
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Madeleine M. Kunin
- Age
- Lazy
- Three
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

J. Martin Kohe
- You
- Day
- Everyday
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

Gale Sayers
- Stop
- Building
- Closing