J. A. Konrath Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
