Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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'Oh, to be a minion,' muttered Giac to himself dreamily. 'I was a sub-minion.'
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I play football every Tuesday and Thursday early in the season. I am smart enough at the game. I score a lot of goals. I wouldn't be the best in the world but I am OK.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
