Katherine Ellison Quotes
“You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.”
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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Although 95 percent of the world's market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.
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Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
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I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I do a lot to take in the histories of the people around me.
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We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.
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The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
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In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording studio, really, where the people in the booth were not interested in making a very good album. It's often a light-hearted atmosphere but serious at the same time.
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“You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.”
