Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell my heart what it wanted.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
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I'm never going to be a flat-line guy. My heart is going to be on my sleeve with every shot.
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Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.
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It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.
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Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell my heart what it wanted.
