Kevin Young Quotes

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

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• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

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• Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

  

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

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• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

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• You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

  

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• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

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• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

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• The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

  

  Manny Farber
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• Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

  

  Patricia Birch
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• Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'

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• Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

  

  Bill Hicks
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• I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.

  

  Donatella Versace
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• I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
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• Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
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• I don't write letters anymore.

  

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• There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.

  

  Andre Dubus III
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  • Beautiful
  • Deep

• Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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• I've done so many Lifetime movies; at this point, I'll be going through airport security, and the lady there will be like, 'I took the weekend off and I saw four of your movies.' And I say: 'You've been watching Lifetime, right?'

  

  Linden Ashby
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• Nobody dressed like my dad. When he worked at the bank, he looked like Richard Gere in Gigolo. And he would do it all the night before, laying out the suit he'd wear the next day. Even on weekends, if he had to go into the office, he'd wear a trouser pant with a V-neck sweater and tie. And I was like, I want to dress like that! He was just so cool.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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• When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Weekend