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

• You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Life
  • Why
  • Problem

• It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Family
  • Confidence

• No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • People

• My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Movie
  • Scary
  • Halloween

• My dad is just like everybody else's dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I've never seen anyone work as hard as he does.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Work
  • Great
  • Guy

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

  

  Katty Kay
  • Confidence
  • Choices