Ken Follett Quotes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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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When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.
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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 don't talk about my private life.
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I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don't necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they're watching.
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God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
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At age 12, I was on 'Guiding Light,' and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to.
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
