Kevin Nealon Quotes
It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
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We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.
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Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
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It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.
