Kathy Bates Quotes
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.
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I use vinegars to deglaze saute pans for sublime sauces.
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
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The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."
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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
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A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
