Ken Kercheval Quotes
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
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America is huge.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
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I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.'
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Think with your whole body.
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As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.
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That it will never come againIs what makes life so sweet.
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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War has become the environment of our time if only because it is an accelerated form of innovation and education. (p. 381)
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Live television invites a lot of comic relief, and I've definitely had my share. I got tongue-twisted on the word 'prevalent' once; had a homeless man accost me during a segment; and got my mic snagged off when a congressional staffer barged into my frame.
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I've suffered from low self-esteem.
