Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King) Quotes
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
