Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes
Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.
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The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure we look out for these people and give them a chance.
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Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.
