Ken Robinson Quotes
One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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You look at material a different way when your ass is on the line financially for it. You want to know where the big laughs are, and how we're going to sell this.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
