J. A. Konrath Quotes
I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.
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I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
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A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
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In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
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I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.
