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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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
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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.
