Dean Koontz Quotes
Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with … or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
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Choirs, auditions, talent shows, I was doing it all.
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I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.
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I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.
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You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
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Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
