Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King) Quotes
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.
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Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
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We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.
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When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.
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I don't think there's anybody that has such a keen sense of vocal production and attention to detail as Dre.
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You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.
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If somebody thinks I have an integrity problem, then the honest thing to do is to tell me what they think it is and let me address it.
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Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.
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I don't think cricket is a game that people who have never played or been involved in understand the excitement. It's a game that is full of excitement, because cricket lovers follow the game and understand the basic principles and rules. They become connoisseurs of the game.
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The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
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The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.
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I saw some women had written that the cloning of Dolly was wonderful since it showed that women could have children without men. They didnt even understand that this was the ultimate ownership of womenof embryos, of eggs, of bodiesby a few men with capital and control techniques, that it wasnt freedom from men but total control by men.
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She was a sweet woman who was handed an extremely cruel fate.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!
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In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.
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Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.
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Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.
