Kat Edmonson Quotes
When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
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My business is hurting people.
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I work for Donald Trump, and everyone knows that.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
