Michael Patrick King Quotes

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.

Michael Patrick King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveSilenceLaughYouFallEdge

Between you and me, odd things happen always on set.

Max von Sydow

MeYouThings HappenAlwaysHappen

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

VisionMeWorldEnergyWineFocused

I had all this success and made all this money, but I didn't have anyone to share it with.

Jeff Greene

SuccessMoneyShareMadeHadAnyone

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Michael J. Fox

MusicSchoolMePuzzleThinkGuitar

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

Michael Eric Dyson

LifeFatherTeenBrotherBelieve

I believe I was a codependent out of the womb and have been struggling to free myself from its vice-like grip for many, many years.

Amanda de Cadenet

MyselfFreeBelieveI BelieveOut

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

LoveSadPastI AmPresentAshamed

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

Tory Lanez

MeYouTellGotOutlookAbout

On their own, tariff and trade barriers, if viewed as transitory negotiating tactics, will not significantly change global investment patterns or the structure of global supply chains and employment.

Michael Spence

ChangeInvestmentChainsWillOwn

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

Janis Karpinski

ValueMajorityEvenFurtherVast

I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.

Deborah Wiles

MusicDanceWordsI AmStoryYou

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

FailureEnoughSecurityAggressive

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