Dean Koontz Quotes
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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Culture follows power.
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Desire is a beast that must be fed!
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
