William Kurelek Quotes
The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
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The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen
