Gayle King Quotes
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
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I got a nice jumper on me, and i'm not just bragging.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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'What’s going on?' I whispered to Gina.'Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,' she murmured back. 'So they’ve invented a new acronym.'
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The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
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All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
