Kate Tempest Quotes
Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
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I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
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Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.
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I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.
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Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.
