Dean Koontz Quotes
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Quotes to Explore
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
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If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.
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Brick and mortar stores will ultimately mark down between 50 to 60% of its merchandise because they don't know who's walking in the door on any day, so they lose control.
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
