Dean Koontz Quotes
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Women just love to shop.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
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'Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I’m far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I’ll probably stick to telly, if telly’ll have me, though I wouldn’t mind doing radio plays as well.'
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That's the challenge as a songwriter is that there's only so many things people want to hear about, and relationships is just one of those things.
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I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.
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Really I've just gotta be making really great music that I love and not worrying too much about what other people are gonna think about it.
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
