Kerby Jean-Raymond Quotes
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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Actor's life is very long.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it, going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it.
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We're very clear on 'black-ish' about how many opinions are voiced by Dre Johnson.
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We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!
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They mean a trip to Paris or RomeTo someone else but not for me.The trains and boats and planesTook you away, away from me.
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If I'm going to be the black designer, I'm going to tell it my way.
