Kevin Whately Quotes
I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.

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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.
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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.
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China has always been very hospitable, but we can choose who enters our house. We could not allow any companies to enter China and make money while hurting the country.
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There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
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I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for so many years. I abused it a lot.
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I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.