Dean Kamen Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need for method acting. This is what I have learnt from Bharat Muni's 'Natya Shastra' and from the Russian theatre legend Stanislavsky.
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The stars that have most glory have no rest.
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If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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I have done work that has appealed my heart, and 'Total Siyappa' is something I really liked.
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I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.
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My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.
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The day Blink-182 announced their hiatus, I felt as if a part of me died.
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Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.
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In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.
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You can make it out of Unobtainium!
