Kathy Bates Quotes
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
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I am more comfortable doing a drama.
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My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.
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Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
