Ken Kesey Quotes
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.Ken Kesey
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Warren Littlefield -
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor -
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
Valerie Simpson -
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.
Zoe McLellan -
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.
Xi Jinping -
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.
Laetitia Casta
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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.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
Mallory Jansen -
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.
J. M. Coetzee -
No man fails who does his best.
Orison Swett Marden -
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.
Ed Harris -
Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
Wale
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
Gabrielle Roy -
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.
Irv Kupcinet -
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.
Nat Faxon -
'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
Zoe Tapper -
I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.
Wale -
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent
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As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
Jodie Foster -
However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
Oskar Kokoschka -
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
Halle Berry -
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey