Harlan Coben Quotes
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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I think theater is a core need of a community.
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It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
