Stana Katic Quotes
As an actor, of course it's exciting to go and explore characters. It's exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that's really the drive, at the end of the day, for me.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes.
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All you can do is the best you can do.
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I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.
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I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did 'Taxi,' for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.
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Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.
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I can be walking down the street, and someone will stop me and ask me for one of my hugs. They feel like I'm their friend, which I love - though sometimes my kids get a little weirded out by it.
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When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.
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It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things?
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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
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I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.
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All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
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Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him – I'm Nathan Lane?
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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As an actor, of course it's exciting to go and explore characters. It's exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that's really the drive, at the end of the day, for me.
