Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.
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Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.
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Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
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I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
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I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.
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I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
