Kenny Rogers Quotes
When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.
Quotes to Explore
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I don't like attacking.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
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The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.
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There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.
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I took an incredibly roundabout route getting into feature films.
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The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
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When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.
