Douglas Kennedy Quotes
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.
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I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
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The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.
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Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
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Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.
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My brother, Chris Massey from 'Zoey 101', was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling's footsteps.
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What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
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'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'
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Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
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Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
