Kate Constable Quotes

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

Kate Constable

• Power
• Being
• Hold
• Reluctance

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Kind
  • Proud
  • Film

• I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Question
  • Wish
  • Tired

• We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Growth
  • See

• We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
  • Why
  • Action

• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Thought
  • Fresh
  • Them

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Better
  • Face
  • Election

• If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Real
  • Change

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Everyone
  • Started
  • Rumors

• Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Bitter
  • Cake
  • Sweeter

• I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • Right
  • Born

• I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Reading

• I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • World
  • Live
  • Leadership

• Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Care
  • Mistake
  • Celebrate

• …inversion…is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Character
  • Cool
  • Decision

• One of the unique features of China is that, notwithstanding the fact that it has a population of 1.3 billion, around 92% regard themselves as Han Chinese. This is quite different from the world's other most populous countries, such as India, the U.S. and Indonesia, which are ethnically diverse.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • World
  • Different
  • Unique

• One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

  

  Kate Constable
  • Power
  • Being
  • Hold