Kevin Young Quotes
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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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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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That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.
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I shop more than most women.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
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There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.
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Honestly, I'm not listening to much of what's going on today.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
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I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.
