Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes
The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.
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Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
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BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
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In the military, a combatant command is the ultimate job. It's the pointy tip of the spear, overseeing the people carrying the rifles and flying the aircraft.
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Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
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Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
