Harlan Coben Quotes
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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You are just your intelligence.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
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The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
