Katie Uhlaender Quotes
Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
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General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
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I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.
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You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
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I'm in the major league now.
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Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
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The growing pains of … being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
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Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.
