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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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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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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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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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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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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I have grown up in the bright light of America.
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My cheat meals aren't even that exciting.
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I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
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Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.
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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.
