Ken Spillman Quotes
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(
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What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because there isn't a lot of rehearsal time, especially at the ballet, it's best if everything is written in the score.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
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My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
