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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I taught them how precisely to explode and still exist.
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Where secrecy is known to exist one can never be absolutely sure that he knows the complete truth.
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Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?
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"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
