Keegan-Michael Key Quotes
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
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I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.
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My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
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In terms of scripted shows, I love 'Mad Men.' Cinematically, it's one of the most beautiful shows ever made. I love the subtlety of the acting and the storytelling, and I love that they don't think the audience is dumb. They make a great show, and you figure it out, and it leaves you with so many questions - it's just great.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
