Gary Kemp Quotes
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal or deranged person commits a gun crime. These acts only embolden those who oppose gun ownership. Promoting responsible gun laws protects the Second Amendment and reduces lives lost from guns.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
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I'm very independent.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
