Ken Kesey Quotes
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
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I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
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I leave Bud Fox in the canyons of Wall Street, just another ant, one of millions of ants…. We’re all absorbed in this system of capitalism…. You join the collective unconscious.
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
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I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
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Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote.
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I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role.
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I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Campaigning ain't tough.
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In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That's a historical fact.
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If this is a tribute show to Eddie, then I definitely want to be a part of it, and I know that he would want me to be a part of it also.
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
