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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• 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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• One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

  

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• We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.

  

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• 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

  

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• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

  

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• Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.

  

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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.

  

  Kevin Saunderson
  • Inspiration
  • Influence
  • Disco