Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes
I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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Female service members are so integrated into the military, so critical and vital to all functions of the military, from combat service support to combat support, to direct combat, that we could not go to war as a nation - we could not defend America - without our women.
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I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
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I'll show you some security and I'll show you some peace: Nagasaki and Hiroshima. You fuck with us and we'll fucking melt you.
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It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.
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A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Love is sacrifice.
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I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.