Kyan Douglas Quotes
Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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My father is a big fan of Amitabh Bachchan and always wanted to work or star in a remake of any of his film. But he didn't get the opportunity.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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People really don't understand what actors do.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
