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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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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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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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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I stay out of the sun; it's terrible for the skin of any woman over 35. If you must have a suntan, at least keep moving while you're in the sun.
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I like Australia, but every time I'm there, I feel like everybody's being sarcastic because everyone's so nice.
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Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
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When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.
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I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'
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What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.
