Erik King Quotes
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
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The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
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Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
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For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.
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I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.
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I think I lose myself in interviews sometimes.
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I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.
