Catherine Keener (Catherine Ann Keener) Quotes

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

Catherine Keener

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• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Help
  • Learning
  • Learn

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Son
  • Grow

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Long
  • Black
  • Pain

• Police can only act on intelligence.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Police
  • Intelligence
  • Only

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Man
  • Condition

• Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Always
  • Picture

• I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Question

• The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Girl
  • Goal
  • Faithful

• To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Long
  • Done
  • Waiting

• Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Job
  • Team

• I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • American
  • America
  • Strong

• For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Learning
  • Language
  • Rich

• Tonight, you made my perfect picture look like black and white. I know I’ve never seen my colors so alive. With you around, I know that we’re gonna be fine. Tonight, you made my perfect picture come to life and I don’t know why.

  

  Beatrice Miller
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Colors

• I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are off, the phones are off, and for this hour, it's going to be like your mother reading to you. We're going to remember why we love stories. I think that gets lost in over-intellectualizing.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Book
  • Remember

• Perhaps if you look long enough, for an intent eye there may be a piece of a star wandering in the sky.

  

  Alamgir Hashmi
  • Star
  • Look
  • Sky

• When we get our minds to playing defense, we can turn any game around. I hope we get to a more consistent level of play.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Hope
  • Game
  • Play

• Beauty is less important than quality.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Quality
  • Beauty

• I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

  

  Catherine Keener
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Seems