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.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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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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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
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The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
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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.
