Ken Venturi Quotes
I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens.
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Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.
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I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.
