John Lescroart Quotes
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.
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In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.
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I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.
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I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
