Katie Aselton Quotes
If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I talk to the universe all the time.
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Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
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Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.
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The real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
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If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.
