Kevin Powers Quotes

I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.

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• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Perfect
  • Better
  • Imperfection

• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Real
  • You
  • Die

• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Happy
  • Language
  • Body

• I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Drive
  • Faster
  • Especially

• I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Think
  • Desert
  • Hot

• Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Real
  • Happiness
  • Goal

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessing

• Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Friends
  • Happy
  • See

• My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Boy

• Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Work
  • Dedication
  • Preach

• People follow me because I am just a normal person, and they can relate to me.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Normal
  • Follow

• My boss treated me like a slave and I felt completely degraded. Then, just once, I did a terrible thing - I peed in his tea! Watching him drink it, my grudges completely dissolved - I never minded making tea for him again.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Tea
  • Boss

• I knew fashion was going to be part of my job, so I thought I might as well have fun with it.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.

  

  Lee Westwood

• See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • School
  • Pisces

• A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Question

• Education needs to be personalized and flexible, which means education policy needs to originate from our local communities and not from some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • Education

• I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.

  

  Kevin Powers