William Kent Krueger Quotes
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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I play a lot of football, watch a lot of football, and think about football.
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In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.
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We don't do this kind of work for awards or to be recognised. We do this to share stories with the world.
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Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.
