Kenny Leon Quotes
When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.
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The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.
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When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.
