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I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.


Peter T. King

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TABITHA KING Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
STEPHEN KING I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find th...
STEPHEN KING You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long a...
STEPHEN KING When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
STEPHEN KING The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your fe...
STEPHEN KING Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
STEPHEN KING We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
STEPHEN KING People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small ...
STEPHEN KING I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn&#...
GAYLE KING I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota...
KAKI KING Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the ...
KAKI KING I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr...
KAKI KING I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be ...
KAKI KING I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want t...
KAKI KING I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
KAKI KING I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and...
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