Kate McKinnon (Kathryn McKinnon Berthold) Quotes
Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.
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How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
