Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
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Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.
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If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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The way your life plays out depends on which dominoes you chose to push over and which ones you leave alone.
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
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For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.
