J. A. Konrath Quotes
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.J. A. Konrath
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
Mahesh Babu -
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
Tavi Gevinson -
I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
Randy Houser
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif -
In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
Ram Dass -
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen -
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey -
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
E. M. Forster -
I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
Madhur Mittal -
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
Magic Johnson -
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
Barry Silbert -
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce -
Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
Larry Hagman -
In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
Gary Goetzman
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
Garry Shandling -
My acting gives me my self-worth.
Elizabeth Banks -
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats -
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
Elizabeth Berg -
A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.
Dave Morris -
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
J. A. Konrath