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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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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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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The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
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To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
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People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
