Ian Kelsey Quotes
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't consider myself British or Indian. I'm kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it's been a good thing for me. It's enabled me to do what I do on 'The Daily Show.'
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You cannot come here because you are not white.
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I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.
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I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
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I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.
