Kevin Schmidt Quotes
I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.
