Owen King Quotes
It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.
Quotes to Explore
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.
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I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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My aim is to create the perfect dress!
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At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
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Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
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Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
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I cannot think of a system of law that dehumanizes & degrades women more than Islamic Law.
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I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
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If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.
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I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.
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Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
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Great growth in India doesn't mean great growth for India companies. It could mean better growth for companies that are trading with India.
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It's not easy for me as a writer to suspend my disbelief in a fantastical zone. I can do it. But it's more natural for me to write stories that are comic. Or hopefully comic.
