Ken Robinson Quotes
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I don't really go out at all.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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From caring comes courage.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
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The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.
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I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."
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Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.
