Kevin Parker (Kevin Richard Parker) Quotes
In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.
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I was always into pop music, Destiny's Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn't all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music.
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In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.
