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 -
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 -
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay
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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 -
I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
Karin Slaughter
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Saint Basil -
America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
Ted Yoho -
We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
Kate Middleton -
Rooms in one of those spacious old houses with the large windows facing the sun, and plenty of books—if I were that abstracted but happy form of reptile called a bookworm, which I believed I am prevented from being only by my sex, the genus, I am told, being persistently male, I would take care to spend at least one of my life’s winters in Putbus. How divinely quiet it would be. What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. Konrath