Richard Kiel (Richard Dawson Kiel) Quotes
It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
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In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.
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The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.
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I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.
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'The Next Generation' was a lot of fun for a while, and then it wasn't a lot of fun. The reason it wasn't a lot of fun was that this one was going to be a guaranteed hit. The original 'Star Trek' was never a guaranteed hit.
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'To stamp becoming with the character of being-that is the supreme will to power.' (WM 617) This suggests that becoming only is if it is grounded in being as being: 'That everything recurs is the closest approximation of a world of becoming to one of being.'
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It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
