Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
I think 'Manchester' is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won't let him go.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.
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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
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In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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The tear rose in Miss Marple's eyes. Succeeding pity, there came anger - anger against a heartless killer. And then, displacing both these emotions, there came a surge of triumph - the triumph some specialist might feel who has successfully reconstructed an extinct animal from a fragment of jawbone and a couple of teeth.
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I think 'Manchester' is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won't let him go.
