Kevin Saunderson (Kevin Maurice Saunderson) Quotes
My inspiration was initially still disco from when I lived in New York, so I was into the songs anyway, then Detroit had an influence on me and brought a more experimental, instrumental vibe to my own stuff back in those days.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
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The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
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Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.
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My inspiration was initially still disco from when I lived in New York, so I was into the songs anyway, then Detroit had an influence on me and brought a more experimental, instrumental vibe to my own stuff back in those days.
