KaDee Strickland Quotes
My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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There is always pressure in football.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.
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Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
