Barry Eisler Quotes
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.
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When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I've always loved to look and seek, and explore and find out.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
