Kevin Kline Quotes
When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.
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We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
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I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
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When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.
