Kerry King Quotes

When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

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• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Up
  • World
  • Hope

• Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

  

  Og Mandino
  • Work
  • Live
  • Today

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Child

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Travel
  • Son

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Night
  • Son
  • Child

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Writing
  • Person
  • Possible

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Military
  • Discipline

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Business
  • Pretty

• Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • America
  • Future
  • Past

• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Me
  • Learn

• To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.

  

  Cy Twombly

• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.

  

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