Dean Koontz Quotes
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
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There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
