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Catherine Keener

"If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew."

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"If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew."

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A.E. Samaan

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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"The world system is employment."

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A.E. Samaan

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

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A.E. Samaan

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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A.E. Samaan

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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A.E. Samaan

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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Catherine Keener
"If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew."

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Catherine Keener
"I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality."

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Catherine Keener
"Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it."

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Catherine Keener
"I think people are always looking for a good comedy."

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Catherine Keener
"I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway."

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Catherine Keener
"I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character."

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Catherine Keener
"Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal."

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Catherine Keener
"I know many great actors who have small heads."

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Catherine Keener
"Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible."

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Catherine Keener
"If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive."

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