Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
I've always liked pop music. I love what it does to my brain, and I've shut it out for a long time.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.
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When Peter Jackson made the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, I remember there was a concern that people who didn't read Tolkien wouldn't go see the first one. But the films were so good in their own right that the audience grew beyond the readership of the book.
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I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.
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What’s going on in this country is insane. And we have people running our country that don’t know what they’re doing, they’re grossly incompetent, and it’s time. We have to make change, real change. Not Obama change, we have to make change.
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I’m southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, I’ll be southern dead.
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I've always liked pop music. I love what it does to my brain, and I've shut it out for a long time.
