Kenneth Tynan Quotes
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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I am an inventor of music.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.
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We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
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Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.
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A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
