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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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.
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I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.
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Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
