Gary Kemp Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
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Princes appear to me to be Fools Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something Else besides Human Life.
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If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
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The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.
