Kyan Douglas Quotes
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
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The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.
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I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
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Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints....
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'Yes,' I answered you last night;'No,' this morning, Sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelight,Will not look the same by day.
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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That was the theme of the Million Mom March: I don't need a brain - I've got a womb.
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Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
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It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.
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Tel Aviv is the most exciting place to eat in Israel.
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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
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We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.
