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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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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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'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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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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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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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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Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.
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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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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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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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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
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This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.
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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.
