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Michael Patrick King Quotes
Michael Patrick King Quotes
Michael Patrick King
American
Writer
Born:
Sep 14
,
1954
Love
People
Sex
Women
Writing
You
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My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!
Michael Patrick King
Mom
Me
You
Old
Say
Out
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Exactly What
Dresses
Put
Attic
House
She
Calling
Leaving
Close
Door
Again
Show
Pull
The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
Michael Patrick King
You
Director
Somebody
Puts
Another
Label
Just
Thing
Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who could be calling at this hour?'
Michael Patrick King
Time
You
Change
People
Energy
Older
Appropriate
Machine
Someone
Only
Voice
Could
Feel
Hour
Like
Call
Calling
Calls
Answering
Boyfriend
Yell
Up
Get
After
Your
Who
Now
Things
Night
Two
The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.
Michael Patrick King
You
Pilot
Tough
Top
Months
About
Week
Written
Over
New
Polished
Any
Six
Episode
Show
Second
I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.
Michael Patrick King
Women
Emotions
Diversity
Enjoy
Totally
Terms
Vulnerability
Understand
Really
Applaud
Strengths
I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.
Michael Patrick King
Love
Church
Smell
Empty
Happiest
Every character when born is a stereotype.
Michael Patrick King
Character
Every
Born
Stereotype
Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?
Michael Patrick King
Funny
Starts
Too
Say
Stops
Where
Far
It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'
Michael Patrick King
Word
Sex
Men
Lawyer
Sex And The City
City
Seems
Lot
Discussing
Straight
Coach
Need
'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
Michael Patrick King
Sex
Girl
Single
Took
Sex And The City
Married
City
About
Outsiders
Been
Off
Should
Reason
Whole
Now
Thing
Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
Michael Patrick King
You
People
Comedy
Think
Other
About
Gives
Writer
Outsider
Poke
Permission
Being
Fun
Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.
Michael Patrick King
Alone
Gay
Man
Mistake
Mind
Could
Never
Female
Female Mind
Begin
Replicate
Workings
Inner
My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!
Michael Patrick King
Me
Women
Writing
Backbone
Way
Writers
Had
Know
Female
Always
Cultivated
Been
Years
Five
Six
Room
If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.
Michael Patrick King
You
Woman
Nurturing
Girl
Big
Building
Relationships
Tell
Exactly
Minutes
Nest
About
Having
More
Having Fun
Dating
Talk
She
Five
Than
Whether
While
Interested
Show
Fun
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.
Michael Patrick King
You
Age
Women
Heroes
Sex
Made
Myth
Single
Shoes
Correct
Sex And The City
Characters
Run
City
Instead
New
Around
Were
Lot
York
New York
Fancy
Certain
Certain Age
Leper
Four
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