Daniel Kemmis Quotes
The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
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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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I crave attention and adventure.
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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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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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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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Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.
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I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
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We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.
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Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
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There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.
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The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
