Dean Koontz Quotes

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

Dean Koontz

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MeBookHouseEscapeWayKid

You must speak the vision of your project in a way that convinces people to pay for it. If they won't pay for it, that is the artist's fault. It is my fault. It is your fault. It is not the executive's fault or the world's.

Jill Soloway

VisionPeopleWorldSpeakYouWay

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

Andie MacDowell

EducationMarriageMotherMusicBack

If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That's already gone far enough. We shouldn't let it become more extreme.

Robert J. Shiller

WaitFeelEnoughWealthInequality

The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.

Shirley Chisholm

JobWomanManHouseTryShe

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

Robert Englund

GoodMyselfSmallYouBadBack

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

Marv Levy

FatherMorningBirdFunHappyMe

Since I'm a professional communicator, I think I instinctively cling to doing what I do best, even in times of crisis and turmoil.

Mike Gallagher

BestThinkDoingProfessionalCrisis

Long before the writer Gillian Flynn popularized the concept of the insufferable 'Cool Girl,' who doesn't exist except in men's fervent fantasies, Hugh Hefner dreamed her, undressed her, and put her in his magazine.

Monica Hesse

GirlMenCoolLongHerExist

I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

Jason Bateman

TechnologyGreatAmazingThinkYou

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

PeopleFeelYouStereotypesPlot

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Dolly Parton

GodPeopleLookingFeelingNeedGet

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

Christopher Nolan

BelieveBetterPhotographyPowerful

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