“Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally r...” — Owen King Quote

“Everyday life is pretty funny and pretty ridiculous and occasionally really great, though not all the time, and that's all part of it.”

“My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter.”

“One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of 'Star Wars' films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films.”

“In the post-Soviet era, the most interesting work on the Stalinist period has been social history, far beyond the Kremlin walls - the study of what one of its leading practitioners, Sheila Fitzpatrick, in her book 'Everyday Stalinism,' called 'ordinary life in extraordinary times.'”

“I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.”

“When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.”