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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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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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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Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.
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The Gandhian influence dominated freedom struggles on the African continent right up to the 1960s because of the power it generated and the unity it forged among the apparently powerless. Nonviolence was the official stance of all major African coalitions, and the South African A.N.C. remained implacably opposed to violence for most of its existence.
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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk.
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A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
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I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.
