Kevin Bacon Quotes

I'm not someone who comes onstage and says, 'I'm rewriting this now.' I don't think it's fair to the writers or the director, or the other actors.

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• My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Think
  • Me

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Problems
  • Process
  • Down

• I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Believe
  • The Right Thing

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Work
  • Women
  • Equal Pay

• In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Opinion
  • Bike
  • Too Much

• I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.

  

  Warren G
  • School
  • Kids
  • Care

• In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Sense
  • Healthy
  • Tend

• I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• All men are born equally free.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Men
  • Free
  • Equality

• Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Death
  • Me
  • Course

• The Islam religion and their scriptures are out of place and out of time. It still follows the 7th century laws and is hopeless. The need of the hour is not reformation but revolution.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Time
  • Revolution

• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Art
  • Savage
  • Knife

• How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Mind
  • Emotional
  • Hero

• The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Experience

• Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.

  

  John Caudwell
  • People
  • Business

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• I'm not someone who comes onstage and says, 'I'm rewriting this now.' I don't think it's fair to the writers or the director, or the other actors.

  

  Kevin Bacon