John B. Keane Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm covered with loser dust.
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The agency is who it is because of many, many, many chapters that needed to happen.
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I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.
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I may make light of being a domestic terrorist, but if they can brand me a domestic terrorist and confiscate all my materials, and then expand into confiscating other people's materials, and then go after Gibson Guitars and so many other different people... they can go after you, they can go after everybody, we could all be "terrorists." That's really the big concern.
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There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.
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God created seaweed… The seaweed made the world.
