Catherine O'Hara (Catherine Anne O'Hara) Quotes
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
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The marathon can humble you.
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I do everything in moderation.
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Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.
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The Badlands were extensive. Ancient bomb craters and soil erosion joined hands here; man’s talent for war, coupled with his inability to manage forested land, had produced thousands of square miles of temperate purgatory, where nothing moved but dust.
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There’s a reason why the French are on their fifth republic, and we are on our first, and that’s because we did not have a worship of reason at the beginning of the Founding as the French did, and then discovered that the purity, the Rousseauian idea is simply not one for the real world, or not one that avoids the guillotine...
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One of the goals of the Trump administration is to reclaim all of the supply chain and manufacturing capability that would otherwise exist if the playing field were level.
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I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.
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Mirrors are the essence of movies.
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Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.
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I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.
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There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
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Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.
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If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.
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You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.
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All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.
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Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.
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My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
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The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.
