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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The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project.
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Consider the social proof of a line of people standing behind a velvet rope, waiting to get into a club. The line makes most people walking by want to find out what's worth the wait. The digital equivalent of the velvet rope helped build viral growth for initially invite-only launches like Gmail, Gilt Groupe, Spotify, and Turntable.fm.
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I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.
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Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
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I was obsessed with New York early on. I was watching sitcoms that were set in or around New York, like 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' I was always very fascinated with the people who were on 'What's My Line?' and I always had an incredible obsession with the city.
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Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
