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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Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
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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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He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.
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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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Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean.
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'Love lives forever.'
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Showy displays of love don't come naturally to everyone. They don't come naturally to me. They also come with a risk: a risk of rejection, being made to feel silly, or making yourself into a spectacle.
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
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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.
