Owen King Quotes

I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.

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• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Heroism

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Learning

• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Work
  • Music
  • Community

• My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Mom

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • You
  • Always
  • Naked

• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Money
  • Society
  • Almost

• If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Love
  • Always
  • Stage

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.

  

  David Farr
  • Book
  • Trust

• I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Father

• Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • Today
  • Enemy

• Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Vision

• When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'm noticing and aware of and thinking about, because when you're doing a series, you think about more than just jokes... you know, when you're doing a comedy, you think about what's going to reflect people's experiences, in a way.

  

  Darren Star
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.

  

  Owen King
  • Life
  • Comedy