Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
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People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
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Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
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I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.
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My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
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I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
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I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor’s mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.
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He believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don’t believe in it at all.
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But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.
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Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it.
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You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
