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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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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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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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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When I went to live in New York, I didn't mean to stay there, but here I am.
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One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.
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People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.
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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.
