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.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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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.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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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.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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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.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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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.
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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.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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The rhetoric on the Hill is getting very heated and it's getting quite dangerous. The gun is at the head of the American economy and Congress is holding it and its got a hair trigger. We've got to pay our bills.
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I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.
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To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
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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.
