Kevin Kline Quotes
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.
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I don't really have any hobbies.
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
