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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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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My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those.
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The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.
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No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
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From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
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I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was - I wasn't going to be able to be a different person. At 17, you feel like a freak already, and so to have that fire and brimstone against your attraction is just screwed up!
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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.
