Ken Casey (Kenneth William "Ken" Casey Jr.) Quotes
Folks have been asking for a place to support the band and get our new 2-song single direct one their phones — so we’ve made the download available on Bandcamp.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.
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In a typical day, I would wake up about 8 A.M., pile all my stuff into my mom's minivan - my guitar, my amp, CDs to sell, a table and a rug - drive it down to the street, and unload it all. I'd wait until about 12, then play for two hours. You could only play in two-hour intervals, so then I would move it all somewhere else.
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A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.
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If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
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We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.
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I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.
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I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
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All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
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Folks have been asking for a place to support the band and get our new 2-song single direct one their phones — so we’ve made the download available on Bandcamp.
