Kevin Powers Quotes
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.
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Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.
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It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'
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The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.
