Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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Even before I auditioned for 'X Factor' the second time, I was doing a lot of dance music.
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Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.
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Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
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I think it's important to add a personal aspect to your music - that's what makes it authentic at the end of the day.
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I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.
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My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
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For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.
