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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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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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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Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.
