Phil Klay Quotes
The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
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There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
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I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed.
