Dean Koontz Quotes

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

Dean Koontz

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LovePainWritingSometimesPleasure

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Jidenna

CapitalismThinkEverythingI Think

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

John Glover

ArtistGoSayActorWriteHard

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Maureen Dowd

WomanKnowWillWriteAnother Woman

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

Andy Stanley

TruthMomentDecisionDayHappy

I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also have what I call an X-factor.

Amy Weber

MyselfPressureCallLotPutAlso

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

Steven Spielberg

CameraSmellKnowingThroughGoing

You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.

Mikko Hypponen

WorkCommunicationGreatYouNobody

Right before the Bush inauguration, many women were greatly reassured when Laura said of Roe v. Wade on the 'Today' show, 'No, I don't think it should be overturned.' Three days later, her husband reimposed the 'global gag rule' on groups abroad that receive U.S. funding for family planning.

Molly Ivins

FamilyWomenTodayHusbandThink

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

Miranda Kerr

HopeHouseGoalGetVegetablePatch

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

Mohamed ElBaradei

GoodHopeCountryWillGood Example

There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.

Louis B. Rosenberg

WorkMedicalPeopleColdEndingYou

My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.

Deb Caletti

TeacherRichMemorableCalifornia

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