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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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
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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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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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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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Envy aims very high.
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Not a lot of the country format I enjoy listening to.
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
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I like to work out while I'm away - it's good to clear my head and makes me feel cuter poolside.
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When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.
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Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
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People should look up to me. Young kids. I am a good role model. I'll show them how men should really be. And kids can take note from that. I am a good role model. Lots of kids look up to me.
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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.
