Cathy Freeman Quotes
I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
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It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
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How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is not a simple matter. It's the kind of dialectical inquiry that's impossible to present in the world of Twitter feeds and newspapers where stories are shorter and shorter and more simplistic.
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They say time is the only healer. God, I hope that isn’t right ’cause right now I’d die to not remember.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.
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I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.
