Keegan-Michael Key Quotes
I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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'Nearly eleven o'clock,' said Pooh happily. 'You're just in time for a little smackerel of something.'
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
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It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.
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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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Emotions aren't a hindrance to wise decision-making, but are central to the Christian life.
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I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.
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My success has a lot to do with Mischa. He was the one who always used to practise with me when I was little, when I was a junior.
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I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.
