Kate Fleetwood Quotes
The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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Standing by me and helping my work as newspaper man were the Fascisti. They were composed of revolutionary spirits who believed in intervention. They were youths-the students of the universities, the socialist syndicalists-destroying faith in Karl Marx by their ideals.
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But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.
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The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
