Kyan Douglas Quotes
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
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I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
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Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.
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'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
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I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.
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Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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I just think there is a part of your brain that is supposed to be afraid of getting old, even if you're not really.
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Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
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I like a woman with priorities.
