Kenny Leon Quotes

I've directed 'Raisin in the Sun' five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That's what great pieces of art do.

Kenny Leon

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The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

John Dickerson

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If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

Matthew Weiner

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There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

Jeffrey Donovan

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I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

Jeff Bridges

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For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.

Jean Stafford

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I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.

Tom Stoppard

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During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quite hard to see the next buoy, so I look behind it for something bigger, like a tree or a building, and aim for that instead.

Jonathan Brownlee

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We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.

Chris Hondros

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'Goldenheart' is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It's a new version of these battles - age-old stories for the now.

Dawn Richard

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I think law enforcement should respect their undercover agents and listen to what they have to say.

David Thibodeau

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I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.

Claire Foy

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The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.

Clark Gregg

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