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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Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.
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What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.
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People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.
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I feel L.A. is unlike anything I've experienced. It's nice when I can relate to people, but that's not very often. I know they're out there, but I feel that there's a very big pressure here to be seen as being gorgeous and special. I don't think there's the same pressure in Australia.
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Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
