Kate McKinnon (Kathryn McKinnon Berthold) Quotes

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

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• I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Independent

• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Others

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Deep
  • Galaxy

• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Friendship

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Source

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• 'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • School
  • City

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Music
  • You
  • Timeless

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Everything
  • Year
  • Will

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Star

• I think it's interesting how you can associate a creative brand with a human being and use some of the good qualities of the human being and make it like a really tangible product that a lot of people can love.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• I am such a political person.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Political
  • Person

• We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Time
  • Success
  • Earth

• I love life. There's so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.

  

  Pattie Boyd
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Time
  • Success
  • Be Yourself