Kevin DeYoung Quotes

Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.

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• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

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• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

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• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

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• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.

  

  Rachel Miner
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• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

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• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

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• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

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• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

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• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

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• It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

  

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• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

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• I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.

  

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• I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!

  

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• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
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• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.

  

  Jiang Wen
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• Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
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