Kate Beaton Quotes
On The Great Gatsby: Fifteen-year-olds can really get behind an essay on what green light means, which is good, because they sure as heck won't relate to any of the characters, who are all huge jerks with enough money to be wasted most of the time on top of being miserable.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.
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I love tap!
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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I don't like violence.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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My biggest goal was - I thought, God, if I could just be a rep company member at the Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. and get to play a bunch of parts in a year! And now in my work everything is about promoting it. It's not about the doing of it! Everything is: You have to sell it, and they ask you to tweet about it or do photo shoots, even for the smallest job. There's an imbalance in terms of what is actually gratifying. The stuff that is gratifying is, like I said, the day of work and the doing of it.
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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
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Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
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When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.
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I'm not sure if we're going to or not because what happens is I'd always love to see certain characters back, there's so many. Some of it has to do with, if we want them back, are they available and the other aspect is do they fit with the storyline we're telling.
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I've been lucky and have played some interesting characters - I'd quite like to play Sweeny Todd.
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When I used to see Rick Moranis do something, to me that was immediately funny. Or George Carlin or Martin Lawrence.
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On The Great Gatsby: Fifteen-year-olds can really get behind an essay on what green light means, which is good, because they sure as heck won't relate to any of the characters, who are all huge jerks with enough money to be wasted most of the time on top of being miserable.
