Kevin Young Quotes
Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.
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Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.
