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Tom King Quotes

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find odd little personal experiences that you hope are universal or think might be universal.

Tom King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1978

Topics

Hope Myself Think Push You Find

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

Jessye Norman

Love People Me Book Language See

I'm probably a believer in abandoning too-big-to-fail firms or breaking them up in some way so that the system can try to take care of itself. I imagine you're not going to get there, and therefore, I suspect regulation is what's going to be required.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Care Take Care You Way Try System

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Jean Genet

Success Fame Heroes Little Paid

I've sort of become the poster boy for quitting your job and following your dreams.

John Tesh

Dreams Your Dreams Job Boy Become

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.

Tony Fernandes

Yourself You Kid Going Any Anyone

I'm thinking about color all the time. Sometimes even as far back as the plotting sequence.

Mike Mignola

Time Color Thinking Back Sometimes

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

Luke Evans

Good Character Responsibility Best

I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras.

Jason Reitman

Myself You Feeling Know Want Hill

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Opportunity Doing Experiences Us Our

It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away.

Jon Gruden

Work Courage Crazy Down Play Go

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Don Ameche

Seen Like Them

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

Chris Evans

Body Know Freak Guy Injury Some