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Kevin Costner Quotes

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 18, 1955

Topics

Responsibility Person Why Shoulder

In some environments, roles shift and change each period depending on what the company's needs are. On the other hand, many functional roles can become very repetitive if you perform similar tasks over and over again.

Change You Hand Become Company Over

The only time I've ever taken out a loan is for the building work I had done at our house and I did that by extending the mortgage.

Work Time Building House Done Loan

A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

Business I Am People Me Nobody Who

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.

Michael Connelly

Woman Man Think Thinking Down Never

I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary writers of the Beatnik generation.

Romesh Gunesekera

Age Reading Generation Feelings Only

It's not that a literature for children of color doesn't exist; it's that so much of the extant literature is lacking in the essential quality that makes literature for children so extraordinary a form: imagination.

Children Quality Imagination Color

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

People Famous Party Lifestyle Yes

I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

Luca Guadagnino

Think Uncomfortable You Artist Nice

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.

Jordan Peterson

Commitment You Say True Degree Away

My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well.

Alice McDermott

Masterpiece My Own Always Own Well

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Sad Happy Choice Active Being

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.

Father Mother Best Brother Sister

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