Michael Patrick King Quotes

I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

Michael Patrick King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

John Glenn

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Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.

John Corbett

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The Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet.

John M. Grunsfeld

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If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

John W. Gardner

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I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

Amy Waldman

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Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange creature he is.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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There are a few places around the country, north shore of Oahu would be one that I would point to, where people really look out for each other; it's a real local sort of a place and once you're in that sort of ohana, or that family, everybody kind of looks out for each other.

Michael Raymond-James

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I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.

Mike Gallagher

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I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Lou Gehrig

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I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

Derek Kilmer

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The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dmitri Mendeleev

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My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say the hard turn for me was when I left school after the eighth grade to play tennis full time and study some with a travelling tutor.

Douglas Brunt

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