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Douglas Kennedy Quotes

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Douglas Kennedy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1955

Topics

Serious Want Very Popular Accessible

It's very tough to run my side of the line. Eight out of 10 plays, they don't get anything.

Tough Run Line Out Side Anything

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Robert Smithson

Future Past Remember New Forget Old

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

I Am Philosophy Physics Now Actually

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Past Language Help You Fall Know

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

War Dangerous Soldiers Ground State

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

You Know Now Hip-Hop Nothing Stage

I like movies that make you think.

Think You Movies Make Like

There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is a difference between using a soapbox and actually getting your hands dirty. I've spent not only years and millions of dollars but hours and hours and hours of my time doing what I do, and that's very different from what anyone else is doing.

Time Doing Hands Trying Dirty Years

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Denzel Washington

Daily Think Learn Someone You See

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

Colin Kaepernick

Day Job End Of The Day End Doing

I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something more novelistic, and that's what I started wanting to do. But I can't say that I'm dying to get notes from a studio. The artistic control that you get as a playwright is worth its weight in gold.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Love Curious Me Moving Control Gold

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Children Me Writing Speak Self Down

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