Kathy Bates Quotes
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.
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I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Music is how you feel.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
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I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
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Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
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It's not as much about the numbers as much as it is that our fans made a mark on this world for us.
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True knowledge is that knowledge which makes man after self-realization or union with God assert that his real Self is in everything and everybody.
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Primitive does not mean stupid.
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In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot.
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The great thing about being on a series for nine years is you get to see the characters grow and change.
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I want to be defined by my own essence.
