Kevin Young Quotes
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I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
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An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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My best feature would have to be my hair. That sounds so cliche - but my hair is like a separate entity.
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Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.
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I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
