Ken Follett Quotes
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.
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If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
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I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
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I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
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One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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Macho does not prove mucho.
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I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
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It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
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Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.
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Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.
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Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
