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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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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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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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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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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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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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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Men are fantastic - as a concept.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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It's true that once a year I travel to Comic-Con... but there I can quickly lower the lights; I can show them the clips, introduce a few stars. And the spotlight is quickly off me.
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The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
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I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
