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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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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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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An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
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Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.
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Snowboarding is a huge part of my life, but I also feel like it's important to have a plan B or a back-up plan for after my career because I can't snowboard for my whole life competitively.
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."
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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.
