Harlan Coben Quotes
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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You are just your intelligence.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.
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It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
