Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes
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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.
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Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.
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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.
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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.
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Running is a simple sport. You don't need all the zoopy zoopy.
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For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.
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Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
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I am someone who places great value on the detail. That was always the case, even in my days as a racing driver.
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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.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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What’s my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn’t there someone more qualified?
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The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.
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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.
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The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
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I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.
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I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.
