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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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.
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Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
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We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped.
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A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
