Kathryn Minshew Quotes

Something I've learned is that when people tell me I can't do something, I immediately wonder why and then think it through. It only makes me more motivated to prove them wrong.

Kathryn Minshew

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Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.

Joe Elliott

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What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

Jill Soloway

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The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

Robert Grosseteste

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I always knew I wanted to make movies since I was around eleven. I never thought of it as wanting to do straight-up comedy. Even now, I don't see things in terms of genre.

Jeff Baena

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Iran is a nation with American blood on its hands.

Jeff Duncan

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The day I feel my clothes are no longer relevant, I will be happy to step down.

John Rocha

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For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.

Stella Young

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I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

Tony Kushner

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One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.

Rosalynn Carter

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When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

Ry Cooder

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The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

Rupert Sheldrake

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People show surprise that I have interests outside my political career. There is subtle surprise, for example, that I would be interested in a recipe.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

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