Alex Berenson Quotes
The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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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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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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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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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
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In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.
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I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.
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Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
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The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?
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The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
