Kathy Bates Quotes
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I see myself as a story teller.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
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What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.
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I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
