Jim Brown Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.
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I started doing sports when I was 13 and competitively doing sports - where I was actually training - when I was 17.
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I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.
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Each golden day was cherished to the full, for one had the feeling that each must be the last. Tomorrow it would be winter.
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If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.
