Catherine Tate Quotes
I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
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But it was impossible to remain so long in the company of a female, even a divine one, without suffering some form of disillusionment.
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With just enough of learning to misquote.
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Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
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I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.
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If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.
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I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.
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There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
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You can't scale if you do it alone, you really need to work with others.
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I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
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Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
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I was a huge fan of Lance Armstrong. The only way that they caught him using doping was through a criminal investigation where they got all of his teammates who did the exact same thing that he did and got away with it to rat him out in exchange for their own immunity. The byproduct of that was that he had passed 500 anti-doping controls clean. So I'm going, "Wait, wait, wait. It's not, 'What's wrong with Lance Armstrong?' What's wrong with this system that was thoroughly ineffective to catch someone cheating for the last 15 years?"
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.
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I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
