Cathleen Schine Quotes

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Cathleen Schine

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• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Woman

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Like
  • Private
  • Meddle

• If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Job
  • Me
  • Waiting

• I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Done
  • Funny

• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Worry
  • Married
  • Terrorism

• Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.

  

  Achille Maramotti
  • Years
  • Generations
  • Five

• I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Job
  • Funny
  • Hair

• Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Art
  • Book
  • Power

• When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Single
  • Diversity

• I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Reactions
  • Varied
  • Horrified

• 'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hate
  • Comedy

• As she sat in the low-backed carThe man at the turn-pike barNever asked for the tollBut just rubbed his auld pollAnd looked after the low-backed car.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • She
  • Car

• You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Smart

• The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

  

  Peter Lindbergh
  • Important
  • Job
  • Today

• Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Knows
  • Wells
  • Radar

• In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Work
  • Real
  • Moon

• Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

  

  Cathleen Schine
  • Life
  • Surprise