Ken Kesey Quotes
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
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I'd like to win an Oscar.
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At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.
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Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.
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Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.
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I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.
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The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
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Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.
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When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].
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NEVER GIVE A INCH!