Kathy Mattea Quotes
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.
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Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
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If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
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Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
