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Quotes
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Stephen King : [when discovering his roots] Thankyou.
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Stephen King : [after learning new things about his heritage] Wow.
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Stephen King : [finding out Tennessee was a huge slave state] I didn't know that.
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Stephen King : [his children Joe, Owen and Rachel] They're good kids.
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Stephen King : [after a DNA test] I'm 99% European, baby!
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Stephen King : A lot of people did serve in the Civil War.
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Stephen King : It's interesting to me to know that I have Southern roots. I had no idea. No idea of that.
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Stephen King : [Tennessee in the Civil War] The right side.
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Stephen King : [not wanting to be a slave] Its good. Something to be proud of.
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Stephen King : I'll never be able to play like Keith Richards, but I always did my best. I always had a blast.
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Stephen King : [to a fan at a book signing for his sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep] I didn't know what was gonna happen. I never know.
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Stephen King : I grew up interested in nightmares, scary stories and things that go bump in the night.
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Stephen King : I have a short leash when people ask where I come from.
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Stephen King : I've always been curious about what my past was.
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Stephen King : [his real surname Pollock] Doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Stephen King : [the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918] It could almost be out of a horror novel that I wrote.
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Stephen King : I always thought to myself you look like an Irishman and you've got the Irish imagination. I've always had that appreciation for fairies and ogres and boggarts.
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Stephen King : Information always leads to more questions, where you say to yourself "yes, but I want to know".
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Stephen King : [slaves] They didn't like it on a moral basis.
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Stephen King : [discovering your roots] I'm set back on my heels by this whole process. Like having a stage and turning on different lights so you see things you never saw before. It's a lot to contemplate.