Keegan-Michael Key Quotes
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.
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Around her, lovers, newly met 'Mid deathless love's acclaims, Spoke evermore among themselves Their heart-remember'd names; And the souls mounting up to GodWent by her like thin flames.
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To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.
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There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
