Kathy Bates Quotes

I was a Stephen King fan and I was amazed that I got the chance to play that role and very glad that I did.

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Amazing
  • Fans
  • Cynical

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Play
  • Powerful
  • Media

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • People
  • Eating
  • Cook

• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Books
  • Before
  • Left

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Cooperation

• I enjoy my life.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • My Life

• The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Story

• You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Popular

• I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Long
  • Day
  • Radio

• I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Characters
  • Variety
  • Layers

• In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Answer
  • Call

• I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had a lot more fun with it. There was a lot of silliness in there. There were serious moments, as well, and there was a lot of heart in that show, but its baseline was comedy.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

  

  Curtis Jones

• Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Shows
  • Littles

• I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.

  

  Elizabeth Bennett
  • Woman
  • Happiness
  • Chance

• I was a Stephen King fan and I was amazed that I got the chance to play that role and very glad that I did.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Chance
  • King
  • Role