Kevin Nealon Quotes

When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?

Kevin Nealon

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Mind
  • Person
  • Adventure

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Great
  • Copy

• I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Know
  • Places
  • Uncomfortable

• Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • High
  • Freedom

• Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Culture
  • Faith

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Start

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• You have to follow that next step.

  

  Laura Moser
  • You
  • Step
  • Follow

• Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Understanding
  • Preparation
  • Journalism

• I hate to travel with stuff.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Stuff

• If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Pretty

• Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

  

  James Blake
  • Design
  • Heartfelt

• And as a mother of three with a full-time job, podcasts gave me the illusion of having a vibrant social life. I was constantly 'meeting' new people. My favorite hosts started to seem like friends: I could detect small shifts in their moods and tell when they were flirting with guests.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

  

  Neal Schon

• When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Children
  • Kids
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