Daniel Keyes Quotes
My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.

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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
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I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.
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A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
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When Glossier launched in the U.S. back in 2014, it felt small - but in a good way. We were able to introduce ourselves locally, start a community, and build something special together.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. It's amazing the way things, apparently disconnected, hang together.