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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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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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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In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
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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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Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.
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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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When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.
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To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.
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I like a woman with priorities.
