Keegan-Michael Key Quotes
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
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I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
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We live in a gray world, and I want to tell gray stories.
