Graham Kennedy quotes

“I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.”
-- Graham Kennedy

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Talking Quotes #Lunch Quotes #Interviews Quotes

“Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.”
-- Graham Kennedy

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#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Personality Quotes

“You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.”
-- Graham Kennedy

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Style Quotes #Cry Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.”
-- Graham Kennedy

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Talking Quotes

“I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.”
-- Graham Kennedy

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Would Be Quotes #Following Quotes

“I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.”
-- Graham Kennedy

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.”
-- Graham Kennedy

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

#Mother Quotes #Night Quotes #Air Quotes

“Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”

“Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

“I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.”

“There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.”

“I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.”

Source : "An Open Letter to the State of Alabama" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

“I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.”

“The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...”

Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY

“I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.”

“I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.”

“People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee