Harlan Coben Quotes
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
Quotes to Explore
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem.
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One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
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The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
