Ken Spillman Quotes
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.
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It's strange how the mind works while you're acting, because you have all sorts of quick thoughts going on as well as the motivations with the character.
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Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It's steady work. It's a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way... where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.
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At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.
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I'm in an area where I want to make music that I'm thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table. I'm in that position where I cannot always be gauging what things might become. I have to look ahead, because I'm cautious.
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Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
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One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.
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The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.
