Kevin Young Quotes
I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that.

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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.
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You need at least eight or nine men in a ten-man wall.
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It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.
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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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Toni Collette is one of my favorite. I have a passion for actresses. The list is going to be very, very long.
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I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that.