J. A. Konrath Quotes
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson -
My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
J. Michael Bishop -
I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
Flume -
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Carine Roitfeld -
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
Adam Michnik -
One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
Camila Alves
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
D. A. Pennebaker -
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume -
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny -
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
Camilla Lackberg -
People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
Taylor Swift
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay -
Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
Viktor E. Frankl -
When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
S. E. Hinton -
But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
Federica Mogherini -
I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
Beau Mirchoff
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
Karin Slaughter -
I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
Sam Bradford -
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
Ian Mcewan -
I devoted myself to the house, to the children, to Pietro. Not once did I think of having Clelia back or of replacing her with someone else. Again, I took on everything, and certainly I did it to put myself in a stupor. But it happened without effort, without bitterness, as if I had suddenly discovered that this was the right way of spending one's life, and a part of me whispered: Enough of those silly notions in your head.
Elena Ferrante -
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. Konrath