Michael Connelly Quotes
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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Their practice habits are terrific. I've been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you You never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it God only knows what I'd be without you…
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You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
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The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.
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Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.
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I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
