Brian Kenny Quotes

There's no there. That elusive there with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you...

Brian Kenny

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• We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Society
  • Political

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Nice
  • Appearance

• I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Love
  • Come
  • Excuse

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• I would like to enlighten people.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Like
  • Would

• I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Book
  • Air
  • Guilty

• I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • School
  • Career
  • Science

• Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Never
  • Answer

• Hearing the blues changed my life.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Blues

• Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• In the dark, I like to read his mind But I'm frightened of the things I might find.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Mind
  • Dark

• My heart is torn with the sound of raucous voices,They shout from the slums, from the streets, from the crowded places,And tunes from the hurdy-gurdy that coldly rejoicesShoot arrows into my heart.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Heart

• I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why it should be true That I get a kick out of you?

  

  Cole Porter
  • Why
  • True
  • Alcohol

• The Jugglers store patterns, but they seldom show any sign of comprehending actual content. We’re dealing with a mindless biological archiving system, a museum without a curator.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• Algunas cosas se hacen tan nuestras que las olvidamos.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I've got two contracts in my life. One, with my wife because we're married. And, two, I've got a contract to protect Andy Dalton. I'll do both of those to the best of my ability.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Life
  • Wife

• The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Believe
  • Lies

• 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

  

  Corey Clark
  • Up
  • Great
  • Done

• I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

  

  Paul Ince
  • Job
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• There's no there. That elusive there with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you...

  

  Brian Kenny
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Elusive