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Michael Patrick King Quotes

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 14, 1954

Topics

Life Romantic Losing Writing Start

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

Child Famous Feel Make Like Really

I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read the Torah portion. I look back with a lot of chagrin about how I behaved.

Learn Look Back Want Bar Torah

Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

Work People Career Sometimes Will

One of my biggest and most influential was 'The Golden Girls.' That show, I remember specific episodes.

Jessica St. Clair

Remember Golden Show Most I Remember

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

Work Best Lose Teachers Going Our

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Love People Control World Try Keep

Looking in a mirror and telling yourself to feel better doesn't work when you're a girl, but finding something that you love to do, something that makes you a better person like volunteering to help others, will definitely make a difference.

Work Love Girl Mirror Help Others

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

Alone Together School Green Start

We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

People Lose Too Much Forget Nothing

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

Care Take Care You Take Who Else

I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to snowboard again.

Good Bad Leg Injury Sure Able

More often than not, punches underwhelm - too fizzy, too fruity, too sherbet-y, and/or too baroque, the flavors all muddled into the boozy equivalent of the water left over from cleaning watercolor brushes.

Water Cleaning More Over Left Than

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