Casey Kasem (Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem) Quotes
Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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Work is what saves you.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
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It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I wouldn’t change a thing except maybe more air play as I feel my music is sacred and the world needs it now.
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Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.
