Kian Lawley Quotes
If I want to act, I'm gonna act. And if I consider myself an actor, that's all that matters to me.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.
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The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.
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There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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I'm pretty boring.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
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The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.
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If I want to act, I'm gonna act. And if I consider myself an actor, that's all that matters to me.
