Stephen King Quotes

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Stephen King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
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  • Birth: September 21, 1947

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Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

Jennifer Carpenter

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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

John Dalberg-Acton

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I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

Anita Diament

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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Jeanne Moreau

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I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet.

Siegfried Woldhek

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A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie.

Shonda Rhimes

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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I love scary movies.

Dee Snider

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But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

Cheryl Tiegs

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I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help free a lot of people that ain't free.

Christian Scott

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It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Antonio Banderas

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When I was doing 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs, we began in bed, and he would give me 10 kisses and an 11th for luck before the play began.

Audra McDonald

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