Jonathan Keltz Quotes
As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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I feel grateful for the Puerto Ricans who created this genre that has inspired me to have such a beautiful career. Reggaeton has allowed me to continue evolving and growing musically, and I have been able to make it mine as well.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
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We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.
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I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.
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I'm not one of those girls who gets with somebody for the jewelry.
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I feel really good about the things I've accomplished in my life, and I don't want to look younger.
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As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
