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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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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I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.
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You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.
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I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
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From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
