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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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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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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It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?
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Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
