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.
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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.
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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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.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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I enjoy my life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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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.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
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Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
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Their defense is tough. We know it's going to be stacked against us, but at least we have the opportunity and the chance.
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There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
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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.
