Philip Kerr Quotes
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.
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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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I am a Bay Area guy, no question.
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I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
