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'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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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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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
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A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
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I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.
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In these days there are few sights more terrifying than that of a well-dressed man with a notebook looking at a piece of land.
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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.
