Kevin Drew Quotes
The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
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Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
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I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' – 126th Street and Normandy, South Central, Los Angeles. I remember that I was on my porch. What they described in that song was so vivid and so clear to me because it was the kind of life I was used to witnessing and partly experiencing in my neighborhood.
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
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I have to do this my way.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.
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There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.
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Jeff Beck is probably my favorite and biggest influence on the guitar. Touring with him in 2010 was such a milestone. I used to show up early every day just to hear his sound check, which sometimes lasted an hour.
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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
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The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.
