Lee Child Quotes
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Novels are longer than life.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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America is a meritocracy.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life. You should have been, or something's the matter with you.
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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
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Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.
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Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.
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'Cold?' Reacher said. 'This is nothing.'
