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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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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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 did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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I went to 17 different schools when I was a kid. Every time I went to school, no matter what I talked like, it was always from the wrong place.
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All of my hopes and dreams lie with young women.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
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I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.
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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.
