Katty Kay Quotes

confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.

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• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

  

  Capucine
  • Think
  • Man
  • Myself

• Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Powerful
  • Cold

• Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Difficult

• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Television
  • Tax

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Death
  • Human
  • Consciousness

• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Free
  • Guilty
  • Fierce

• I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Work
  • Character
  • Help

• You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.

  

  Ted Cruz

• Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Beach

• Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Sexy

• The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.

  

  Joe Penny
  • Door

• Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Music

• We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.

  

  Clementa C. Pinckney
  • People
  • America
  • Culture

• I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Dance
  • Taught
  • Dancer

• I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

  

  Rick James
  • Live
  • Trying

• The hard core in public choice can be summarized in three presuppositions: (1) methodological individualism, (2) rational choice, and (3) politics-as-exchange.

  

  James M. Buchanan

• To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Thoughts
  • Decisions
  • Behaviors

• Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.

  

  Daniel Handler

• I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.

  

  Albert Cossery
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Beauty

• confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.

  

  Katty Kay
  • Confidence
  • Choices