Bruce Kent Quotes
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.
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I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global perception that Kiwis can and do fly high.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.
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Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
