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At one point I would read nothing that was not by the great American Jews - Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - which had a disastrous effect of making me think I needed to write the next great Jewish American novel. As a ginger-haired child in the West of Ireland, that didn't work out very well, as you can imagine.


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KEVIN MCKIDD When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford t...
KEVIN BRADY I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will per...
KEVIN HART I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated s...
KEVIN MITNICK One of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and chang...
KEVIN MITNICK Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken abou...
KEVIN WHATELY Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's...
KEVIN RUDD In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl...
KEVIN MCKIDD Yes, my fellow citizens, despite what the original Constitution of the United States says about the ...
KEVIN BLEYER I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to lau...
KEVIN SPACEY I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and ...
KEVIN SPACEY I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.
KEVIN KWAN When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. ...
KEVIN COSTNER If you go to a coffee shop or at the airport, and you're using open wireless, I would use a VPN ...
KEVIN MITNICK New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse g...
KEVIN MITNICK I can go into LinkedIn and search for network engineers and come up with a list of great spear-phish...
KEVIN MITNICK I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a...
KEVIN SPACEY Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's...
KEVIN MITNICK I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adve...
KEVIN MITNICK I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too m...
KEVIN DEYOUNG I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's s...
KEVIN BACON