Ken Casey (Kenneth William "Ken" Casey Jr.) Quotes
Little known fact about me...do you know the first words I ever spoke were Bobby Orr ...thanks to my hockey fanatic grandfather saying his name over and over and over to me until I eventually repeated it.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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Little known fact about me...do you know the first words I ever spoke were Bobby Orr ...thanks to my hockey fanatic grandfather saying his name over and over and over to me until I eventually repeated it.
