Michael Koryta Quotes
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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Muslims who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.
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Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
