Quotes by Michael Patrick King - Page 1

Nothing else exists when art does.
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Doe
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Every character when born is a stereotype.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Born
Character
Stereotype
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Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?
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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Love
Math
Problem
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I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Church
Empty
Smell
Happiest
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The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Directors
Firsts
Labels
Label
Puts
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I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Knows
My Time
Watches
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That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Needs
Self
Sometimes
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People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Good Taste
Okay
People
Taste
Good People Taste
Lean
Pull
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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 / Producer
Men
Cities
Discussing
Sex
Sex And The City
Coach
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Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Men
Female
Female Mind
Gay
Mistake
Replicate
Inner
Workings
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Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Permission
Poke
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'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 / Producer
Girl
Cities
Married
Outsiders
Sex
Sex And The City
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I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Laughter
Paint
Tears
Willingness
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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 / Producer
Female
Rooms
Writing
Years
Women Always Me
Cultivated
Women Me Always
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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 / Producer
Months
Pilots
Polished
Six
Episode
Pilot
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There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Drama
No Reason
Sex And The City
Vibrant
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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 / Producer
Diversity
Emotion
Enjoy
Vulnerability
Applaud
Strengths
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The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Character
Comic
Laughter
Sex
Sex And The City
Rarely
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Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Compliment
People
Reactions
Years
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People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Bad Taste
Dirty
People
Smart
Taste
Wince
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Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Baby
Falling In Love
Mistake
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Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Change
Cities
Heart
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I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Challenges
Emotion
Pressure
Trying
Viewers
Myself Always New
Repeat
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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 / Producer
Mom
Doors
House
Attic
Mom Me Old
Door
Exactly What
Pull
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I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Comic
Complicated
Elegant
Fantastic
Philadelphia
Stories
Thinking
Women Are
Shot
Comedies
Daunting
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'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 / Producer
New York
Running
Age
Certain
Fancy
Leper
Made
Myth
Sex
Sex And The City
Single
Women Sex City
Heroes
Around
Certain Age
Run
City
Correct
Instead
York
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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 / Producer
Girl
Dating
Five
Fun
Having Fun
Minutes
Nests
Nurturing
Talk
Interested
Mr
Exactly
Nest
Relationships
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The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Gravity
Letting Go
Losing
Mean
Sitcom
Wave
Writing
Comedies
Let Go
Reaction
Romantic Comedies
Throw
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With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.
Michael Patrick King / Producer
Abstract
Bottom
Expecting
Following
Silence
Edge
Live Audience
Worse
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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 / Producer
Boyfriend
Appropriate
Calling
Night
Two
Voice
Time Change Your
Answering
Calls
Hour
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