Douglas Kennedy Quotes
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.
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Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
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I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
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Inspiration comes from a clear mind. Right straight through. We have nothing to do with it.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.
