Kevin Henkes Quotes
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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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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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.
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I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
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They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work.
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Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.
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When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
