Kathy Mattea Quotes
I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Life is sacred to me on all levels. Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I can always go back to education.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
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I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.
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I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?
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I jump into the process, and the record begins to gel at some point. Then I begin to get a picture of where I'm going. But it's not always something I know on the front-end.
