Brian Kenny Quotes
I've seen the effect of this on my daughter. I just know this is working at the ground floor level.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
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The script is just a blueprint.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day,When heaven and earth shall pass away,What power shall be the sinner's stay?How shall he meet that dreadful day?
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I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
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The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.
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My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.
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A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
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We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.
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Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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I've seen the effect of this on my daughter. I just know this is working at the ground floor level.
