Keisha Castle-Hughes Quotes
Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest.
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I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
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Jazz can accommodate so many things. Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation, and it's connected to everything.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
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Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.
