Dean Koontz Quotes
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I refused from the beginning to restrict myself to any sort of lifestyle.
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Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.
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You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.
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If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.
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There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
