Catherine Marshall (Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd) Quotes
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
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I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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I love the smell of a man's skin.
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People in Toronto love to watch fights.
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.
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I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
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Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?
