Douglas Kennedy Quotes
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
Quotes to Explore
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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I love to push myself.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.
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My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.
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Success is always less funny than failure.
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I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
