Harlan Coben Quotes
I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people.
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
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I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
