Ken Casey (Kenneth William "Ken" Casey Jr.) Quotes
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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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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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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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I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
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Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.
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I never watch my own films.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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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.
