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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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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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. … Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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Being taken down a few pegs is humbling. Knowing that life is not easy or fair is humbling. Receiving a great honor - well, that would be called an honor.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
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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.
