Garson Kanin Quotes
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.
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Gambini was addicted to asking the sort of ultimate questions about which one could speculate endlessly with no fear of ever arriving at a solution.
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As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.
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My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
