Katrina Mayer Quotes
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He's an author, speaker, and businessman. He's just a great husband and blessing.
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It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools.
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Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.
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Sometimes when you get lost you find a better way.
