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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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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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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That's filming. You pitch up, give your all, and see what the outcome is.
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Welcome your problems with open arms! Like any other game, the game of life is played as per your aptitude; the more expert you are, the more difficult it gets. Embrace the problems and hardships that come your way, for you are the ones chosen to handle them.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
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Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.
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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.
