Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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It would be quite interesting to use Kermit the Frog to act like a real frog. But it wouldn't produce captivating theatre.
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Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
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I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.
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I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.
