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Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. ↗

— Richard King

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Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money. ↗

— Richard King

#make #money #movie #never #purely

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive. ↗

— Rodney King

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I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. ↗

— Stephen King

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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones. ↗

— Stephen King

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I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. ↗

— Stephen King

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Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. ↗

— Stephen King

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I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. ↗

— Stephen King

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Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. ↗

— Stephen King

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That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. ↗

— Stephen King

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