Douglas Kennedy Quotes
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
-
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.
-
It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
-
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.
-
I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
-
The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
-
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.
-
I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
-
I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.
-
If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
-
I hate that tabloid idea of anybody who is famous having to forfeit their privacy.
-
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.
-
We don't care if you understand us.
-
Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
-
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
-
On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
-
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.
-
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!
-
I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.
-
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
-
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
-
I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.
-
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
-
From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
