Harlan Coben Quotes
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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What a piece of garbage this smart car is. There's a commercial - the smart car has zero percent interest for six years. Well, good, I got zero percent in six years in buying this smart car. I'll tell you that much. I mean, it's ridiculous. My buddy has a smart car, totaled it. He hit a deer tick.
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists...
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As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.
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I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
