Kalup Linzy Quotes
When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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I've always been a fan of 'Beat It,' 'You Rock My World,' and 'Smooth Criminal.'
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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Many of our leaders have gone past the old-fashioned politics of the democratic era and entered into the politics of fear. People running for national office no longer emphasize their views about the economy or social change. The leading political question of our time has become: who can ease our nightmares?
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I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.
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When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
