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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We speak glibly of conservation education, but what do we mean by it? If we mean indoctrination, then let us be reminded that it is just as easy to indoctrinate with fallacies as with facts. If we mean to teach the capacity for independent judgement, then I am appalled by the magnitude of the task.
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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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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.
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Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.
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I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
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From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.
