Kenny Leon Quotes
I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That's what great pieces of art do.
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I have a great office.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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I assumed that, if I put my head down and did great work, what I deserved would come to me. What you deserve will not come to you. It is only in advocating for yourself that you will receive what you deserve.
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Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
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I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.
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The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That's what great pieces of art do.
