Kate Williams Quotes
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
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When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
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I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other girls and women to hear a real female voice that wasn't completely manipulated.
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I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'
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Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
