Kevin Connolly Quotes
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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It's funny because as much as I've done Dr. Freeman, I guess because I shave right afterwards, people don't recognize me necessarily as Dr. Freeman, whereas a small role like 'Garden State' or 'Get Him to the Greek', which is the funniest one to me, they're like, 'Hey, you're that dude!' and you're like, 'Oh my God!' Which is awesome.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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I'm a nostalgic guy.
