Kat Graham Quotes
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
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My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
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From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
