Ken Kesey Quotes
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
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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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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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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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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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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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My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
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I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.
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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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With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
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A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
