Lyle Kessler Quotes
'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
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Really being able to harness my mental approach has kind of taken me to the next level, and obviously maturing as a player and a teammate and as a person. Those are things that are necessary to achieve success in this game. There's no other way around it.
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The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita.
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
