Owen King Quotes
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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It doesn't matter what kind of body you have, it's the determination and the spirit that's going to get you there. I want to prove that.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.
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I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.
