Ernest Klein Quotes
What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
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The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.
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What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
