Owen King Quotes

A lot of storytelling... you're a bit hypnotized by it, and things just come out in certain ways, and you look at it and try to gather it.

Owen King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

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Back in the 1940s, people were sleeping on average just a little bit over eight hours a night, and now, in the modern age, we're down to around 6.7, 6.8 hours a night.

Matthew Walker

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It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.

Mary Lou Retton

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You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.

Mike Leigh

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In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new interdisciplinary institute, the Biotechnology Laboratory. I decided that it was time for me to start paying back for the thirty years of fun that I had been able to have in research.

Michael Smith

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'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.

Jay Parini

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When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Dolly Parton

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Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

Chris Cooper

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My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I don't define drag. Drag is defined by me.

Aquaria

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I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

Aubrie Sellers

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With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it's hard to contextualise it in a script.

Todd Phillips

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