Ken Kesey Quotes
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
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No man fails who does his best.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
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When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
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If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
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To hope and dream is not to ignore the practical. It is to dress it in colors and rainbows.
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An Irishman hears that the banks are failing. He runs into the bank where he keeps his money and demands every cent of it. 'Yes sir,' the teller says politely. 'Do you want it in cash or in the form of a check?' The Irishman replies: 'Well, if you have it, I don't want it. But if you haven't got it, I must have it immediately.'
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
