Kevin James Quotes
Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
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What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
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I like a quiet life.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
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It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.
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I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.
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In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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We cannot get into a situation, and I believe the family understand this, where we start bargaining with terrorists and kidnappers, because if we were to, we would not make Iraq or anywhere else safer.
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Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
