Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King) Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
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The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
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I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.
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Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!
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There's a seven disc C.D. changer in her car, and I'm in every single slot, and you're not.
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When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between 'what is' and 'what should be'.
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I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?
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In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
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For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.
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I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
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It's always nerve-wracking when people say they look up to you or that you're a good role model. It's such a double-edged sword, because you realize you've been put on this pedestal, and you have to make sure that you don't do anything to get torn down.
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It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
