Gary Kemp Quotes
In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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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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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
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There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
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It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.
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Biden's about as disciplined as a puppy, OK?
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
