Dean Koontz Quotes
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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Corporations are the new dictators.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
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In the next minute, I will be entirely naked. In the minute after that, fully dressed.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.
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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
