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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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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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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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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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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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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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 fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.
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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
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The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.
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I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.
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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.
