Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes
All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.
Quotes to Explore
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
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It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.
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If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
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We need prisons because there are some hardcore criminals, but I never met a guy who has been in jail that came out with a smile on his face thinking, 'Right, that's it - now I am going to be good!'
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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been talking about this stuff for years. There are lots of people out there who understand what’s going on. The problem is, they aren’t much picked up on Fox News.
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If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
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I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.
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It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.
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You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.
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All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.
