J. A. Konrath Quotes
My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
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Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. It’s not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it. It reanimates, revives, subjects everything to its needs.
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I am the most popular man in Israel.
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I've led programs that have helped thousands of individuals, small businesses, veterans, the disabled, farmers get low-interest loans to prosper.
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Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
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My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
