Kent McCord Quotes
I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.
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I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.
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I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.
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Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
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I think the most important thing my wife Cynthia and I can do for Kristen is to teach her how to grow up to be a woman and make her own decisions. Meanwhile, we sometimes have to guide her.
