Ken Kesey Quotes
What I always wanted to be was a magician... My real upbringing when I was a teenager was doing magic shows, all over the state, with my father and brothers. Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
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When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
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What I always wanted to be was a magician... My real upbringing when I was a teenager was doing magic shows, all over the state, with my father and brothers. Doing magic, you not only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line to go with it. And writing is essentially a trick.
