Katherine Rundell Quotes
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
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Rufus because my diaphragm gets a workout while trying to utilize the 18 vocal sounds a mole makes. Chuckie because ... he's an asthmatic with five personalities rolled into one-plus I have to do the voice the way Christine Cavanaugh did it for 10 years.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
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Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
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I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.
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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
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Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.
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I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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Books crowbar the world open for you.
