Dean Koontz Quotes
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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My reason for leaving 'Beautiful', because I had such an amazing time on that show, was by the time I left, I had been doing the show for almost two years. I was a little burnt out.
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We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day when we had to make a decision whether we were going to go to the summit or not. It was already getting dark, but we made the call to go and made the summit, but as soon as we got there, this blizzard just hit.
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Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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I feel very blessed to have such wonderful cheerleaders and champions of my work.
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When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
