Stephen King (Stephen Edwin King) Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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I became one of the stately homos of England.
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My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.
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I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.
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I agree with you that should work together in a bipartisan fashion, and I believe this work product is a result of a hard-fought compromise.
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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.
