Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

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• I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • May
  • Community

• Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Travel
  • Nothing

• Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Love
  • Reason
  • Affects

• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Smart
  • Problems
  • Longer

• To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Opportunity
  • Problem
  • Focus

• One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.' It is still difficult for me to read these words without tears filling my eyes. It is wonderful.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Tears
  • Salvation
  • Grace Of God

• The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.

  

  Wendy Ewald
  • Optimistic
  • Creatures
  • Happened

• You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • You
  • Learn
  • Actor

• The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • World
  • Live
  • Education

• In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows.

  

  Roger Caras
  • Cat
  • Kill
  • Can

• Running is a simple sport. You don't need all the zoopy zoopy.

  

  Bill Squires
  • Running
  • Sports

• For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

  

  John Hutton
  • Opportunities
  • Threats
  • Decade

• Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

  

  Steve Sabol
  • Football
  • Emotions
  • Films

• I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Value
  • Detail
  • Racing Driver

• I actually cut my sentences a lot. I'm very aware of the actor, giving them too many words - just a mouthful of words - it's difficult sometimes for an actor. So I'm kind of aware of breaking sometimes the line, the sentence with a comma where maybe there wouldn't be a comma there. Just to give a breathing space for the actor, just to be aware of that.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Words
  • Space
  • Actor

• My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Best

• I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

  

  William Gibson
  • Feels
  • Fiction
  • Qualified

• For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

  

  Vladimir Potanin
  • Father
  • Symbol
  • Qualified

• The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.

  

  Amy Trask
  • Women
  • Qualified
  • Hired

• The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

  

  Whitney Chadwick
  • Word
  • Category
  • Qualified

• It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Believe
  • Teaching
  • Knowing

• I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Qualified
  • Unqualified