Caitlin Doughty Quotes
Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
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I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
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Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.
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Necessity has no law.
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I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
