Michael Patrick King Quotes

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

Michael Patrick King

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• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

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• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  

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• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  

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• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  

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• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

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• There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

  

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• I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.

  

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• India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

  

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• The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

  

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• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

  

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• Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

  

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• The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.

  

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• Men need to live and breathe women.

  

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• Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

  

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• Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.

  

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• It sounds cheesy, but if you feel good about yourself, it's going to show on the outside.

  

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• I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.

  

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• We've flown the president since Eisenhower, and we're going to continue to fly the president for generations to come. This is something we're very proud of.

  

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• Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".

  

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• The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

  

  Michael Patrick King
  • People
  • Character
  • Laughter