Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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Every time Wimbledon is on, I am thinking, 'Yes, I could do the same and get out the racket.' Sadly, not the same results.
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I never grew up seeing women that looked like me in magazines or on TV and didn't feel like I had a place in the world of fashion. I am honoured to be part of that change.
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I'm a big supporter of immigration.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.
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If you can't make fun of bad movies on serious subjects, what's the point?
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'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
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Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it.
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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.
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Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.
