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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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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Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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'Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.'
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At the end of the day, you really want to make sure that organic music, made by human beings, at least has a voice.
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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
