Daniel Keyes Quotes
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary Clinton and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.
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My diet, my regime, the whole life I have on the road has always got that little bit of stress because I'm always afraid I'm going to get a cold. And it's just such a nightmare when you got a cold or an irritation and you have to do a show.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.
