Kevin Young Quotes

Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make - much less make that make-believe real.

Kevin Young

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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

OpinionThoughtEnjoyComfortOften

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

Tony Hale

BeautifulArchitectureYouHouseGo

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.

Tommy Mottola

GoodCreativityEndYouArtistKnow

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Mary Shelley

LifeWhereHatedMostObstinate

Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.

Mike Birbiglia

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My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

Mike Krzyzewski

TeacherSchoolAmbitionHigh School

I've always liked using humor, but what I had to with 'Chewing Gum' was take out a lot of darkness so it would be a bit more feel-good.

Michaela Coel

HumorDarknessMoreAlwaysGumOut

I wanted to be a farmer's wife. I thought it would be quite fun to wake up of a morning, collect eggs and have sheep and pigs as pets. I know now that it would also involve having to sleep with the farmer, but at the time I wasn't thinking about the sexual implications - I was 11.

Miranda Hart

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In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

Josh Groban

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To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ActionFreeThoughtHypocrisyDeceit

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

Jon Ronson

HomeMomentPeopleAmericaBackWhy

Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.

Delta Goodrem

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