Kathleen Casey Quotes

Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.

Kathleen Casey

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• My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • She
  • Hope

• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • You
  • Listening

• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Change

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Everything

• I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • People
  • Woman
  • Red

• In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Book
  • Career
  • Health

• I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Dad

• After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Gold

• Friends,

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Friends

• The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • World
  • Truth

• Donald Trump is the greatest deal maker in the history of our country.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Country
  • History
  • Trump

• I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Different
  • Awesome

• Much of social media can be seen as the 'News of me.' It's not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne

• I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Character

• The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Education
  • Change
  • Climate

• Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Why
  • Mean

• I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

  

  Amos Ferguson
  • Faith
  • Paint
  • Sight

• You can't be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people get 10 dollars' worth, then that's okay.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People

• To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion and avoid causing others pain. And to the extent that suffering awakens our empathy and causes us to connect with others, it serves as the basis of compassion and love.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Pain

• Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.

  

  Kathleen Casey
  • Suffering
  • Paint
  • Optional