Kate McKinnon (Kathryn McKinnon Berthold) Quotes
I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
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The people are weary of being oppressed, persecuted, exploited to the maximum. They are weary of the wretched selling of their labor-power day after day - faced with the fear of joining the enormous mass of unemployed - so that the greatest profit can be wrung from each human body, profit later squandered in the orgies of the masters of capital.
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
