Kevin Kline Quotes
I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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You have to be yourself.
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
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Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium. On the other hand, I trained as a documentary filmmaker in film school, so my films very much reflect reality and socio-political problems. They're less subtle I would say.
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The men and women that I've worked with on the police force are some of the most honest, heroic, and pure human beings I've ever met.
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And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
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I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.
