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'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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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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Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.
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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.
