Daniel Kemmis Quotes
The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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I guess I fell into cooking.
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Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
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The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
