J. A. Konrath Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
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This is the thing that I think we're all learning from the Chinese: that this merging of messaging, media, and payments together really makes sense to people.
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Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together.
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