Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes
Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
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In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.
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A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.
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You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
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I know I'm known for dramas, but around my family and friends, I'm really goofy! Not saying I'm necessarily funny, but I'm very goofy.
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Especially as a teenager, you were so fond of Schiaparelli because she was slightly extreme, rebellious, and iconoclastic as well. That appeals to teenagers!
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I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything, but especially anything where it's a strong emotion.
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Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.
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There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.
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Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
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I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls.
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When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.
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I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.
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I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
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A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.
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I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.
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Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.
