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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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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This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
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As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
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From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
