Owen King Quotes

I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.

Owen King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1977

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I think it's the hardest thing to remind yourself you have to do it the way you would do it. Because no one else is going to do it that way. If you don't do it, then no one else will - and the world won't see it.

Jessie Mueller

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This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

Joan Armatrading

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Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

Matthew Stewart

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I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

Amy Heckerling

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You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

Lucas Papademos

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As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

Lucy Hawking

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Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.

Jason Silva

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I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.

Josh Gordon

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It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

Jonathan Coe

MeSmallPoliticalYouBecomeWrite

Of course, legends can call out whoever they want and do as they please, but they can't just show up and get handed matches.

Dolph Ziggler

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My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Cher

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