Kevin Bleyer Quotes
Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.
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I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority.
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Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?
