Douglas Kennedy Quotes
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
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I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.
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I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.
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We don't care if you understand us.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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about solar energy If you ask your congressman why, he'll say 'Because it's hard. It's really hard. Makes me want to go poopie.' You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!
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If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
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I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.
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I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
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I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.
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With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
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From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
