Gene Simmons (Gene Klein) Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
