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

• Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.

  

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz
  • God
  • Choices
  • Creation

• I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Pretty

• President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights.

  

  John Roberts
  • People
  • Law
  • Independent

• There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Never
  • Clothes
  • Shots

• A football player at any level must set goals.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Football
  • Player
  • Goals

• 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