J. A. Konrath Quotes
When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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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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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
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If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.
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We're pretty interested in microbial communities on-board space stations. It's a closed-loop system. Our water is recycled; our air is recycled.
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My dad is so impressed. He loves the movies and would take us two, three times a week, so this fantasy of mine of becoming an actor? I can blame my father for that. He's so amazed. And so happy.
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My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
