Alexander Koch Quotations

I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?

Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people.

From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.

I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater. I was like, 'I'm obviously not cut out for this, so I might as well just go into film.'

One should not translate the increase one-on-one into future hard data.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

We see risks of a decline in fourth quarter GDP and are expecting a flat reading.

The recent weak data should remind us that the exceptional gains in business confidence and new export orders may be overly optimistic.

The worst in retail sales should be behind us. A recovery of private consumption is in the cards this year.

A recovery of private consumption is on the cards this year.

It's quite likely that we have now seen the peak in the current business sentiment cycle.

The current economic situation should improve the overall labor market situation in the course of the year. However, the creation of new jobs will fall short of the dynamic in business investment.