Bradford Cox Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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I don't hate Muslims, I hate Islam.
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I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
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If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
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I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good things.
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
