Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.
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How can art be realized?
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I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
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Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.
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Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.
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I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.
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I think people are always looking for a good comedy.
