Kevin Bacon Quotes
The way I analyze a script, I don't look at how many days I have off. I see how far they're going to push me. That's just the way I am.
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
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Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.
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If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
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I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.
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I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
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I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
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If what I went through on a national level, the trouble between me and my wife, if it helps one couple going through the same thing... if it saves one family, it's worth it.
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I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.
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When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups.
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Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created.
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Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.
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The way I analyze a script, I don't look at how many days I have off. I see how far they're going to push me. That's just the way I am.
